I split the Music page into two pages:
- The Home page has an introduction and information on how to navigate my website.
- The Music page displays all songs on my music album. Each song has a description and a 30 second preview.
My Blog – Projects, Music, Website
August 24, 2010 - Website Update | Album Song Descriptions, Previews
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.
