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Website Update | Album Song Descriptions, Previews

Bryce — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:09:23 +0000

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.

Website Layout Changes

Bryce — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:31:17 +0000

I made changes to the brycecoulson.com layout:

The site is now broken up into several content boxes.
The 600×160 Google ad is no longer fixed, I moved it to the right side.
I used
tags to separate each blog post.
Blog navigation moved to right side.

Distant Empires Website

Bryce — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:57:13 +0000

My brother and I have been working on a computer game for almost a year now called Distant Empires. It’s an online multiplayer space conquest game that only works for Linux right now but we plan to make it work for Macintosh and Windows.

I created a website for Distant Empires, its similar to the design of brycecoulson.com. You cannot download the game yet, but there are a couple screenshots at http://distantempires.com. I may put up a video to show off the game play later.

Website Update Aftermath

Bryce — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:41:20 +0000

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.

Website Update

Bryce — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:52:01 +0000

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.