First site...

Hi all,

I made my first site. It's for a Dutch gospelchoir. Nothing really spectacular. The choir didn't want a site full of busy gadgets and bells and stuff, so I made it quite a plain Flash site. However. I did some funny things with the text, and put some actionscripting in its scrolling device. Next to that I created an online update mechanism using asp. With that members of the choir kan log in to the update section using a password and a special page code. They can then enter, add, or change text in the textframe and submit it. Asp does the rest... the text of the site is updated allmost immediately. No difficult ftp-ing anymore, even someone without internet knowledge can update the site.

If you have some spare time, I'd like to read your evaluation of the site. Must say the text is in Dutch though....

here's the URL: http://www.salvation.nl

Webmaster@elvenmade.com

Elves,

I don't read Dutch, so its a little hard for me to see what your message is. Selling tickets? recruiting members? Promoting albums?

The biggest thing I found lacking was MUSIC. If you had song sound bites, I didn't find them!

(I did click on an ear, but got credits instead).

The second thing is color. A Gospel choir is a glorious thing, yet the site is nearly all grey. I would add colors suitable to the joyousness that is gospel - start with the big gray area surrounding the menu.

Overall, I liked it. Simple, effiecient, invitation theme in the graphics. Good job!

ed

Elves,

Oh, and a technical thing: I clicked the bars in the top center (this symbol has no meaning to me) then clicked the question mark, then the ear.

After I clicked the ear, the help movie kept playing. Clicked the bars again, and help still kept playing.

Good coding,

ed

add color, like ej0c said. Gospel is happy.
Nice site for a first one, i've made amny sites and still can't figure our ASP or PHP.

Hi guys!

Thanks for the comment!
I agree with this colour thing, but terms were strict. SalvatioN gospelchoir is known for their use of black and white. It's typical for them. The choir says that, though of course the gospel is a very happy (and colourful) thing, it all is about a single black and white question. Either you accept the gospel and become a believer (and are saved = white) or you ignore the joyous gospel and will not be saved (black). It's a matter of eternal life or eternal dead. People will have to choose there are no options (or colours) in between. The sharpness of the decision is stressed by the sharp contrast between black and white.
Hope you guys understand why I had to made it monochrome, on the other hand: that was quite a challenge in itself.
I also agree with you all about this music which has to be added. Quite a dilemma too, because I don't want to increase loading times very much. I'll give it a try next week. May be, this will add an extra joyous aspect to the site....

Thanks again friends!

R.J.

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Originally posted by killabry
add color, like ej0c said. Gospel is happy.
Nice site for a first one, i've made amny sites and still can't figure our ASP or PHP.

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