David Emery Online

I don't really do web design so much any more - I firmly have a marketing hat on these days (and it's a pretty snazzy hat, let me tell you...).

Below is an archive of previous sites I've worked on.

A couple of weeks back – it’s been a little too busy recently to keep up with blogging, as you may have noticed – at work we launched a new site for Vampire Weekend:

vampireweekend.com

I’m happy with the way it’s turned out, which is fortunate as it’s liable to be the last artist site I do for a good while. Such is the way these things go I’m now no longer in the position where I do any actual design or development anymore. Not to say I’m not involved with all that – I certainly am – but the pixels are no longer pushed by my own hand. I’m sure I’ll keep on doing the odd job on the side (I’m not just going to stop designing, perish the thought) but certainly I’ll be doing it a lot less. Hopefully that doesn’t mean I’ll start redesigning this place even more though…

With vampireweekend.com being my swan song then, I thought I should try and make it a good one.

My favourite element is the homepage with it’s fullscreen scroll-y carousel, and particularly the ‘Contra’ page within it, which you can drag around like a google map to reveal the lyrics to all the songs, and listen to them as well. That whole home page section is hopefully enhanced by being fully fluid, so each of the different featured bits of content you can flip through all size themselves to fit the browser fullscreen (including the headings on the Contra page, which is super complicated considering you can then drag it around).

Other things of note include the gig listings, which use Flickr machine tags so that you can make your photos of a gig that you’ve posted onto Flickr appear on the site and the photos page which similarly pulls in from the bands Flickr group. Also, I’m quite proud of the article pages which all line up to a baseline grid (if you’re in the right browser – it’s not exactly the same in all of them… as no site should be) and keep the line lengths all nice and readable as well.

My only real regret is that due to Yahoo!‘s pre-historic webhosting, and the inability for assorted reasons to move to a better host, it has to roll with nasty “?s=news” style URLs instead of nice “/news” ones, which will bug me forever.

URL picky-ness aside, I hope you like it.