I added sound samples to show off the free VST instruments/effects listed on the LMMS tutorial on where to get VST instruments/effects and how to add them page. I used the html5 audio tags instead of Flash. I like these tags because they use less code then the xspf jukebox flash audio player I’ve been using. I may use audio tags for the rest of my site but I haven’t decided yet as html5 isn’t supported by many browsers yet (I believe Firefox 3.5+ and later versions of safari work with them). I think I can get away with it because most of my website visitors use Firefox. Users that don’t see the audio player will be able to download audio as ogg, (maybe mp3 if people want me to).
My Blog – Projects, Music, Website
February 5, 2010 - Website Update Aftermath
I encountered a few things after my website update:
- For a while, anyone visiting my site through Google would end up at an old broken PHP page, I fixed this.
- Google search results for my page still have my old links, this means you will have to find pages manually. I’m not sure how long it will take for Google to update my website with new links or if theres anything I can do. I tried 301 redirects in my htaccess file without much success.
- My website looks terrible in Internet Explorer 6, sorry to anyone using this outdated browser. Please update your browser or use Firefox.
I added text advertising to the side and bottom of each page. I’m quite happy with how I was able to match the text ad colors to my site.
January 30, 2010 - Website Update
The website update is done except for the text or banner ads! List of changes/additions:
- Navigation links are now horizontal and always stay on screen.
- XSPF music player is shrunk to make room for non-existent banner ads. Hurray!
- XSPF music player, ads and contact info always stay on screen.
- Added a Friends page instead of rotating links. Wrote a blurb about each link on the Friends page.
- Change header colors to make website easier to read.
- Folder names make more sense (words instead of numbers: /tutorials/beginner/).
I used Gedit in Ubuntu to code the HTML needed for brycecoulson.com.
January 29, 2010 - Massive Website Changes
- I’m doing a massive overhaul on my website. My website currently uses the CKEditor which lets me edit my pages online through my website backend. It works really well but I don’t feel like messing with PHP on my site anymore. I’m going back to using HTML, this will let me use an easier to read folder structure. (/tutorials/ instead of index.php?name=1248465560_Tutorials). I think the new folder structure will get be more search engine friendly.
- I’m also changing the look of my site, my current design needs at least one more color.
- I’d like to earn a bit of money from my site so I plan on adding some sort of banner or text advertising as well. I will change my site around to make space for this.
When I make these changes, brycecoulson.com may go down several times, sorry for any inconvenience.
December 21, 2009 - New Website Colors
- I re-styled my website to use darker colors (grey-black, blue and tan). I quite like the new colors and believe other people will like it too!
- I may attempt to change the XSPF Web Music Player (top left) color later.