Band Website
 

My friend has recently joined a forming band, I have offered to create a website for him but am stuck for ideas on how band websites look. I've been toying with designes on paper but none of my designs actually look like what you'd expect for a band website.

I dont know whether to go for simplicity or a more complex looking site.

I was toying with the idea of having the sites template in the shape of a guitar and work the website around that.

this is something i just drew up.

[img]http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/5584/picture651er.jpg[/img]

its poor quality but you get the idea of how it will be laid out. I'm abit concerned about the space on the left so thought about having a design on the guitar (to personalise it abit and to fill the space) but am stuck for ideas on what to draw as the guitars design. any pointers? i was maybe thinking lightning or something.

dued, check my old bands site

http://www.blackwatermods.com/borum

hehe BWM happy:

That looks pretty leet. Like the way its black and white.

soundriot!

I still havent finished the other one wallbash: .

You picked any colours yet? That's a good place to start. On something like a website it's best to try and keep the main parts of the site limited to no more than 3 dominating colours.

Yeah i know, I have some experience in creating websites already. I was thinking of blue, yellow, and another optional colour. can of couse be changed.

Ok, i'm having some problems, this is just a try at getting it to look "right". I'll be changing the design of the guitar, one i have more experience.

The table is fucked with the content in:
This was what I was seeing in Firefox, the tables in Dreamweaver looked perfect and the source code looked fine.
[img]http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/6154/problem26pk.jpg[/img]

I then viewed the page in IE and found the tables were ok.
[img]http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/7483/problem12mf.jpg[/img]

Take a look for yourself http://www.mikeanthony.co.uk/band/index.htm

view it in firefox and IE and you will see it in more detail. Any ideas as to why this is happening? This is the rar to my files if you want to look closer at them:
http://www.mikeanthony.co.uk/band/web.rar

Any help would be appreciated.

kinda off the subject but wtf are stagweekends?

Also, i dont like how the end of the guitar is cut off, perhaps try messing with it and see how it looks with the end on?

I'll be completely changing teh guitar look later on. I'm just messing around at hte moment.

Stagweekend is the host's advertisement. I dont use enought bandwidth to need to pay for a webhost

anyone got any ideas on how to resolve this problem, and any pointers would be appreciated towards the sites layout/ guitar etc?

That looks like fun to make. I can give you some high res pictures of my guitar if you need some... I think, I'd need to find my camera.

....I think you should crop the guitar in half, down the middle, and have it so it sits vertically on the left hand side of the page - As a sort of menu bar type thing.... rock:

dude make all the buttons and stuff on the guitar the navigation, or the frets a navagation bar.

Thanks for the comments so far. It was pretty fun to make, any pix of guitars would be appreciated.

Trip i like your idea, i'll attempt that tomorrow.