So I have some big updates coming up at the turn over for the new year.
School is just about out and I should hopefully have some more time to work on some of my personal projects because I do not have a full time job yet. I was unable to schedule any live shows for this past fall because having class that goes until 9:00pm three nights a week and then work and commute the last two nights go until about 7:30pm does not lend itself to very much practice time. Especially when that 7:30 ends up falling on a Friday night. I have been working on developing a new website for my music and projects, which is for the most part finally complete. I have been slowly developing this website since June, but I just get so lazy with it sometimes that the development grinds to a halt. The main development of the site has actually been done since about August, but I have been since designing and editing little annoying things on the site like spelling, links, and minor formatting such as shadows and such. This is extremely boring work and I hate doing it so the development of these tiny little pieces has taken more then three months, when in actuality it would only take about two hours to do if I just sat down and did it. I also put off the website's deployment for financial reasons, not because I didn't have the money for a domain name, but rather I just was too much of a miser to spend the lousy twenty-something dollars to set the whole thing up. It is getting there though and the new year seems like a perfect time for a new site launch. I am putting up a proper website because I think it will help people better be able to navigate to my music for listening as well as download some of my net albums. As you probably notice from this Blog it is not exactly easy to find where my music is or where you can download it. I am using iWeb for the design of the new website and it is looking really nice. iWeb has a lot of great features in it that make it want to be used. Some of those features include blogging, photo albums, and podcasting. At present I am probably going to stick with this Blogger Blog for my blogging (wow that was a lot of b's) simply because I think Blogger is a little more flexible at the moment, but I anticipate that to change as iWeb goes to a release version 2.0 within the next six months. You can be sure I will add some pages in the future for photo albums as well as for downloads of some of my music tutorials.As part of the new website launch I am playing with the idea of implementing a Podcast. I think since I am a musician the Podcast seems like it might be a natural progression for people to listen to my music and hear my thoughts. iWeb has some really slick podcasting integration in it that I do not think any other web development tools have, but I still have to explore the flexibility of it. If it is anything like the blogging software in iWeb it may be to inflexible for me to use. We will just have to wait and see, but I am very excited of perhaps implementing a Podcast feature to my site to make it more interactive. If people have some feedback that they would like to give me on the idea of podcasting I would be more then happy to hear it. As much as I love listening to Podcasts myself, I really have no idea as to what goes into making an interesting Podcast. At present I am thinking of perhaps keeping them relatively short, between 20-30 minutes, and have about 10-15 minutes of me talking about a subject and then the last half of the Podcast feature some of the music I am working on. That shouldn't be too boring right?Also for those who do not know, I run another Blog all about livePA, or live electronic music over at http://www.livepa.blogspot.com. Please go over there and check it out if you are interested. I am also looking to redesign that site slightly, or at the very least develop a new banner for it. If you have any suggestions or would like to do it, shoot me an email.
Tags: New year website Dynamic Interplay
School is just about out and I should hopefully have some more time to work on some of my personal projects because I do not have a full time job yet. I was unable to schedule any live shows for this past fall because having class that goes until 9:00pm three nights a week and then work and commute the last two nights go until about 7:30pm does not lend itself to very much practice time. Especially when that 7:30 ends up falling on a Friday night. I have been working on developing a new website for my music and projects, which is for the most part finally complete. I have been slowly developing this website since June, but I just get so lazy with it sometimes that the development grinds to a halt. The main development of the site has actually been done since about August, but I have been since designing and editing little annoying things on the site like spelling, links, and minor formatting such as shadows and such. This is extremely boring work and I hate doing it so the development of these tiny little pieces has taken more then three months, when in actuality it would only take about two hours to do if I just sat down and did it. I also put off the website's deployment for financial reasons, not because I didn't have the money for a domain name, but rather I just was too much of a miser to spend the lousy twenty-something dollars to set the whole thing up. It is getting there though and the new year seems like a perfect time for a new site launch. I am putting up a proper website because I think it will help people better be able to navigate to my music for listening as well as download some of my net albums. As you probably notice from this Blog it is not exactly easy to find where my music is or where you can download it. I am using iWeb for the design of the new website and it is looking really nice. iWeb has a lot of great features in it that make it want to be used. Some of those features include blogging, photo albums, and podcasting. At present I am probably going to stick with this Blogger Blog for my blogging (wow that was a lot of b's) simply because I think Blogger is a little more flexible at the moment, but I anticipate that to change as iWeb goes to a release version 2.0 within the next six months. You can be sure I will add some pages in the future for photo albums as well as for downloads of some of my music tutorials.As part of the new website launch I am playing with the idea of implementing a Podcast. I think since I am a musician the Podcast seems like it might be a natural progression for people to listen to my music and hear my thoughts. iWeb has some really slick podcasting integration in it that I do not think any other web development tools have, but I still have to explore the flexibility of it. If it is anything like the blogging software in iWeb it may be to inflexible for me to use. We will just have to wait and see, but I am very excited of perhaps implementing a Podcast feature to my site to make it more interactive. If people have some feedback that they would like to give me on the idea of podcasting I would be more then happy to hear it. As much as I love listening to Podcasts myself, I really have no idea as to what goes into making an interesting Podcast. At present I am thinking of perhaps keeping them relatively short, between 20-30 minutes, and have about 10-15 minutes of me talking about a subject and then the last half of the Podcast feature some of the music I am working on. That shouldn't be too boring right?Also for those who do not know, I run another Blog all about livePA, or live electronic music over at http://www.livepa.blogspot.com. Please go over there and check it out if you are interested. I am also looking to redesign that site slightly, or at the very least develop a new banner for it. If you have any suggestions or would like to do it, shoot me an email.
Tags: New year website Dynamic Interplay