From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #654 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Sunday, September 15 2013 Volume 15 : Number 654 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [AVALON] Today's Times. [Andrew Shearer ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 18:51:35 +0000 From: Andrew Shearer Subject: RE: [AVALON] Today's Times. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/magazine/article3864524.ece Unfortunately behind a paywall Andrew www.andrewshearer.com Twitter & Facebook: @shearermusic > Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:08:12 -0700 > From: taxi2hb@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF website new lay out. > To: avalon@smoe.org > > thank you Chris, for the clear explanation > > always nice to know how one and > another works with the internet > > > > Frank > > > ________________________________ > From: Chris Turner > To: Dick Verseput > ; "avalon@smoe.org" > Sent: Tuesday, > September 10, 2013 11:54 PM > Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF website new lay out. > It's been up for a few days. I think it's very good. Rather than using an > in-house designer or bespoke web design company they're using a branded > content management approach. An external company > called > http://www.musicglue.com/ provide the back end and the facilities > and take a > proportion of earnings from the site's commercial activities rather > than a > fee. The facilities are common to all of their sites but the look and > feel is > bespoke for each. They have a stable of artists, but no one else of > The > Commander's stature. > > Technically, it's pretty good. It uses responsive > design > (that means that what you see is tailored to the medium you are using, > for > example desktop, tablet or smartphone all look appropriate for the device) > and > more importantly it delivers the information you need such as forthcoming > gigs > or latest news better. It's not HTML5 but that's not a big problem. The > sounds, videos and social media stuff are nicely integrated. My one minor > criticism is the use of those big photos as backgrounds. Better to have a flat > background which is less distracting. It's not like you can see the photos > properly anyway, and they don't appear in the smaller device factors.. > > BF's > sites have always been muddled before or concerned with style over substance > (yeah, I get the irony). This is a big step forwards in my view. BF has > finally got to grips with t'interweb. > > Chris > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To > unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #654 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest