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New site #1
One of the things that has been keeping me busy over the last few weeks is the new Adele site, which we’ve just launched:
This is the second phase of the Adele site, which up until now consisted solely of large video. We’ve kept that, and extended it with all sorts of extra content – news, tour dates, discography info, photos, links and more. Although it looks relatively straight forward, it’s actually got all sorts of interesting bits dotted about.
For a start, it’s got microformats all over the place. The gigs use vcalendars, the main news feed is in hAtom (as is the blog) and the music page marks up the releases using hAudio (which I used here for the first time – not sure I really see the point of it as yet but it took no time to implement so why not!). In the same spirit it’s also got a .ics feed of tour dates so you can easily add them into iCal or another .ics compatible calendar app.
It’s also got all sorts of vaguely ‘social’ aspects – for want of a better term. Comments are enabled all over the place, the photos section pulls in photos from a Flickr group and in place of a traditional forum we’ve set up a Ning page instead. I’m interested to see how this does as we’ve had mixed success with mini-social networks – they seem to be a bit superfluous as they’re never going to replace Facebook et al, but do seem to contain more potential value then a normal bulletin board.
It is – of course! – all based on Textpattern, with a modification of the code we use on the XL site pulling in the blog from the MySpace site. It’s also all nicely fluid width as well, and there’s a nice surprise if you’re running Safari 3.1 and you select a different video on any page other then the home page…
Comments
Jeremy Keith said at Jun 8, 09:41 AM:
Nice work, David.
One small point about the hCalendar listings on the front page: there is no “summary” value provided so the title of the event may just come up as “undefined” in some parsers/calendars. What I’ve done in this situation (on the Salter Cane site, for instance) is to double up the location as the summary i.e. class=“location summary”.
HTH
edd__ said at Jun 8, 12:34 PM:
Hey, is this the same dave who made Jack Penate’s website?
I presume it is, in which case, is it at all possible that we can try and sort out all the spam on there?! It’s bloody ridiculous now, completely relentless and constantly aggravating. There is currently 119 pages of users on the forum, and probably 2 pages of that are actual people.
Please man, it’s so fucking annoying, and there’s nothing i can do apart from deleting posts and banning users. There has to be a better solution
Peter said at Jun 8, 08:29 PM:
David, I can’t read your articles now you use black text on a blue/black background.
David Emery said at Jun 8, 09:17 PM:
@Jeremy – thanks for the heads up, I’ll have a go at fixing them tomorrow (and I might actually test them this time!).
@edd_ – yep, the one and the same. We’re very busy at the moment but I’m going to see how the one we’ve used for Adele works out, as I’m hoping that will be a spam-free alternative. For anyone else reading – don’t use punBB! It gets spammed very easily, and all the solutions out there (that I’ve found, at least) require hacking away at the PHP which isn’t exactly elegant.
@Peter – what browser are you using? It should be black text on a (basically) white background, with blue round the edges.
Peter said at Jun 10, 07:57 PM:
I’m using Opera. I checked ff and I see how it should be, although there are often long delays in scrolling, like it jerks a lot. I’m on a fast connection.
edd__ said at Jun 16, 11:38 AM:
cheers man, glad to know that it’s not just been totally forgotten.
I had a search around, and it definitely does seem that punBB is not a good idea, and it would take some code-editing to sort it out. Could i be cheeky and ask if you could maybe keep us posting on things through the forum? Just so everyone knows what is happening
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