the site looks great, it's a nice change and it's really fun to play with. i haven't had a chance to look at everything yet, but i did notice that the tracklisting for exhibit a on the discography section stops at situation gone bad, leaving off harder to ignore and circus. are those going to be hidden tracks or were they cut from the album?

No, I am just an idiot.. working late on things doesn't always result in intelligent results. Should be fixed now.

If anyone else finds any glaring errors - please let me know. I'll be making a more semi-official post about the whole thing momentarily.

(Edited by michael at 1:53 pm on Sep. 13, 2004)

Holy Crap, the new site rules! Good work, sir!

The new site rocks big time!!! It actually makes me like the whole album art MUCH better. Very professional looking, props to you guys.

I do have one question though. The screen is just a little bigger than my monitor and I can't see the very bottom and I can't resze the window. Am I the only one with that problem?

If you're running at 800 x 600 resolution, the site SHOULD detect that and open a browser window large enough to show you everything.

Otherwise my only recommendation is to bump your screen resolution to 1024 width.. the new standard in monitor resolutions.



Michael

I love it....the whole storybook piratesque theme is tremendous.

exactly, you can never go wrong with pirates.

Personally, I think pirates are waaaaay too trendy. They're the ninjas of 2004. That's my only beef with the new "image" (as it applies to advertisements, the website, the album art, etc.)

I still think the site is extrememly well-organized, eye-catching and original.

(Edited by carligula at 4:56 pm on Sep. 13, 2004)

yay! the picture of rollum with the goat! ive been waiting so long to see that

Arrrrrrrr......get off my sack, pirate nazi.

(Edited by Chiren at 4:20 pm on Sep. 13, 2004)

i hate it
this sucks












no really, i like it alot alot alot
when the homepage loaded, chloe pointed and squealed 'pirate ship' and then acted like she fainted.
good job.

It's beautiful. Excellent work.

This is hands-down the best the site has ever looked. I'm amazed and I absolutely love everything about it...wow...

well done, mr. eades.

well done.

The new site is pretty cool, but I miss the music player that used to sit unobtrusively at the bottom of the screen. I know a lot of you have every recording of every version of every song, but sadly I do not, so I'll miss being able to listen to the mix that was on the site.

Melinda

My only criticism of the amazing-looking new site is that there is not a link back to the homepage from the forum. I bookmark the forum and check it more often than the regular site. The banner at the top could be a link back home, perhaps where it says "The Features."

I do agree with this. I second it, even.

Well then, time to vote by a show of hands.

I'd show mine if I weren't so far away.

And, while not about the new website, more a complain about the website in general, I still want the Features EP to be put up there. But I love the site. It's spiffy!

Hot damn! The new site is pro. Very pro. I'm impressed.

I agree - will the tracks that you used to stream ever be available to download in the audio section? It's not like they're ever going to be released... Come on, be kind to me - I'm not even going to get an album to listen to for ages!!

Pirates? I thought it was a "Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker" theme. I assumed that video-game-loving Rollum had finally siezed control of the band's image.

Great job to all involved with making the new site. It looks wonderful!

I love the new site. It's very very nice.

During my planning period at school is really my only time to check out the message board and I love the new and improved site. Good work!!!

I love the site especially how the maps just spring out when you click to a new section lol

It does now. However, if you were to come to the forum from the site, and then click that banner and have it open the site again.. might be confusing. Or maybe if you're viewing a topic you might click The Features in the top banner instead of clicking the text link to go back to the root.. maybe? But, who is gonna do that? We'll try it out for awhile.. if noone complains or gets confused enough to mention it under their breath to me, then it will stay.

Anything else?


Michael

(Edited by michael at 10:43 pm on Sep. 16, 2004)

Something appears to be wrong with the performance of the site in the last 12 hours. After I view threads, they are not marked as read. Also, after I post, it goes to a blank screen (I think this is what's been causing the double posts).

Is this just because of Tropical Storm Ivan?

I get a blank screen when I click 'last post', and I'm nowhere near a tropical storm.


I also get a blank screen when I've posted a new message.

(Edited by ladytron at 4:27 pm on Sep. 17, 2004)

Very strange indeed. I've done nothing to change the functionality of the site (bar the linked banner at the top) so I'm not really sure why the performance would be sub-par. I will keep investigating....


Michael

(Edited by michael at 11:07 am on Sep. 17, 2004)

I like the boxes clear instead of greyish pink when they've already been read.

I do, too. What happened to the new counters under the avatars? Were those anchors? Stars?

They are dubloons - and they should still be there. They are for me at least.


Michael

They're back. Very nice. Let's see if my screen goes blank now...

Nope. All is well. Thank you, sir.

(Edited by carligula at 2:51 pm on Sep. 17, 2004)

It's fixed now.

I just got off the phone with Meeks... he's confirmed for me that the website is indeed fixed.

I'm not afraid to kick an old man's ass.

I have to agree with Chiren here, Pirates have always, still are, and will ever be synonymous with individualism (like we all try too hard for . . . hence the apparent recouring pirate trendiness), causing uproar (blowing it out) , timeless tunes (yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, is my personal favorite), putting to the man (which for me is much like having music that retains quality & integrity reclaim the banner of popular music that the scurvy currs of the money machine plundered from us loyal shipmates in their longstanding mutiny), Rum (which everyone likes unless they crossed swords with 151 and lost, I mean shit, Its made from sugarcane, what fool would take a potato for a good time over a big stick fulla sugar, and besides rum leads to carousing, which leads to singing, which leads to rocking, and that mates is a good thing), and of course pirates are always getting booty (which is what happens to the true pirates when all these things come together at a features show, can I get an arrrrghh?).
GENERALLY SPEAKING PIRATES RULE!

Now a quick moment for my favorite pirate joke:
A salty old sea dog sulks into a smoky piano bar just south of savannah, GA. Halfway to the bartender, the piano stops and the few patrons grow still and stare at peg leg making what is now the only sound in the bar. Georgia is full of kooks, but few go so far as to get a wooden prothesis. Worried glances bounce between the regulars and the social drinkers for clearly this muttering old man, is insane. And appart from the already erily authentic pirate garb, strange though it is, there dangling from a rusty old chain about his waist, is a steering wheel from a 1968 Ford Mustang. As the Pirate reaches the bewildered bartender, instead of inquring of the wild eyed old man what his poison was (that is his drink of choice, which most obviously would have been rum), could only blurt the painfully obvious observation, that incase the old loon had missed it, that there was a steering wheel chained to his waist. Our dear pirate scratching his eye-patch casually, gave a stare with his one good eye to the bartender and remorsefully remarked "argh. . .It's drivin' me nuts."

Three cheers to the Administrator, for truly he is a jolly good fellow

(Edited by MarshallStacks at 3:13 am on Sep. 19, 2004)

personally, i'm getting a lot of mixed messages from the features at this point. they say "ooh, we like pirates" and stuff, and then they've slapped these fbi anti-piracy warnings all over their cd. i don't know what to do; i mean, either i'm going to be cool and pirate-y, or i'm not, right? i think i could probably get a really killer eyepatch on e-bay. perhaps we are meant to be really nice pirates that don't murder or plunder anything, that just look for buried treasure or whatever the fuck it is nice pirates do. wear our puffy shirts, talk to parrots, that sort of thing. somebody just tell me--how am i to feel about piracy, really. am i pro-piracy or anti-piracy? you can't have your...uh...what do pirates eat? i'm not sure i know. well, anyhow, you can't have your spiced rumcake (let's say) and eat it, too.

They should let "Serious" turn up as a b-side with all of this nautically themed stuff that they are throwing around right now.

A good (proper) pirate wouldn't eat fruit and get scurvy...I think the Features are way more of the buried treasure sort, not the raping & pillaging kind.

Or maybe all that pirate stuff is a clue to a REAL buried treasure somewhere! I'm in the mood for an adventure!

Not a bad idea actually.. if only I had some booty to bury.

Quick question: Does anyone here really need the front of the site to say what the latest topic in the message board is? Most people seem to come to the forums more than the actual site (makes sense) so I'm not convinced there needs to be an informative blip that lets people know what the latest topic has been...



michael

LOL. You kill me, Andrew.

(Edited by jamiecarroll at 5:28 pm on Sep. 19, 2004)

It is not needed.