Klydo New Homepage

[rawritsluke]

Yeah we are going to upload our LimeWire libraries

LMAO! Would it actually be allowed if you uploaded your iTunes library tho as your paying for music then?

[Dentafrice]

LMAO! Would it actually be allowed if you uploaded your iTunes library tho as your paying for music then?

No, read the iTunes license

[Klydo]

LMAO! Would it actually be allowed if you uploaded your iTunes library tho as your paying for music then?

No, any music which is planned to be publically played needs to be either played by it's creator/copyright owner or played with a license. Therefore if the creator/copyright owner uploads it's then legal if someone else does it's illegal

[rawritsluke]

Just do what myspace do Let your users upload the copyright music instead

[Dentafrice]

Users can't upload the copyrighted music, unless him/her are the band.

You can put flash media players on your page, from places like http://www.myflashfetish.com though.

[rawritsluke]

Users can't upload the copyrighted music, unless him/her are the band.

You can put flash media players on your page, from places like http://www.myflashfetish.com though.

Well will still work out fine as they can put music on their pages.

[Klydo]

Our music database obviously won't have big names on it from the start, however we will work on getting a larger database. I've been speaking to some of the smaller or unsigned bands from places like PureVolume and MySpace to get them to sign up. A lot are interested.

[rawritsluke]

Ahh I see but somewhere you might want to introduce up-to-date music

[gesiwuj]

http://www.justupload.net/uploads/43041208klydo.png

^^ I'm not a fan of the Cooper-style typeface in the navigation so I tried Georgia and although not perfect, it seems quite satisfactory (for three minutes' work... you could fiddle with the kerning and size a little).

The obvious advantage to this is that being a web-safe font, Georgia can be used confidently as actual text as opposed to the old-fashioned image button technique that not only wastes bandwidth and increases loading times for the user; but hinders usability and accessibility.

The Arial was fine, anyway... a thousand miles better than the Cooper-style typeface. And Trajan Pro is a good typeface (although admittedly overused and wouldn't be suitable and relevant for this project)!

Also, I'm not sure about you, but I'm not an expert enough iconographer to use icons without any textual description or label. I had trouble identifying just where a few of the icons would lead me, and I'm sure a less savvy web user would have even more trouble!

So far I managed to identify from left to right: network? (definitely not intuitive for non-web users), friends/parental controls, favourites?, help/support, close window?.

Also, I fail to see how you hate Arial/Helvetica with a passion for the header (where the mockup shown is surprisingly suitable) but is used in the section below where it looks bland and uninteresting.

The text in the top section is far too small and the mid-grey on light-grey has very little contrast. Plus, being an italicised sans-serif that hinders legibility further.

Where's any search functionality? Today's web users demand quick access to data (of whichever form) and having no search on the main page is just a detraction.

The advert is obtrustive, irrelevant and takes up space that could be used for something useful. May I suggest you review your revenue sources as Google Ads are certainly not the best earners!

In full, a mediocre design... not bad but tediously bland and unexciting (the opposite you want with the young demographic you're undoubtedly aiming at).

Finally, please learn to take criticism, Mr. Cooper! These forum members are only trying to help by suggesting that the navigation font is a bad choice (and in my opinion they are correct)... they are only trying to undermine your design 'skill' if that's how arrogant and ego-tastic you are.

You are not an invincible, amazing designer (neither am I) so please don't act like one. Take the feedback like a man, and better yourself and design skill by embracing it.

Thankyou.

P.S. The CAPTCHAs on this site are incredibly frustrating... it took me about twelve attempts to get in. I'm sure it's better to let a bot in once or twice than keep ten times as many contributing users out.

Perhaps you could consider a system such as reCAPTCHA, although I'm not sure how well that would integrate into a closed vBulletin.

[Dentafrice]

http://www.justupload.net/uploads/43041208klydo.png

^^ I'm not a fan of the Cooper-style typeface in the navigation so I tried Georgia and although not perfect, it seems quite satisfactory (for three minutes' work... you could fiddle with the kerning and size a little).

The obvious advantage to this is that being a web-safe font, Georgia can be used confidently as actual text as opposed to the old-fashioned image button technique that not only wastes bandwidth and increases loading times for the user; but hinders usability and accessibility.

The Arial was fine, anyway... a thousand miles better than the Cooper-style typeface. And Trajan Pro is a good typeface (although admittedly overused and wouldn't be suitable and relevant for this project)!

Also, I'm not sure about you, but I'm not an expert enough iconographer to use icons without any textual description or label. I had trouble identifying just where a few of the icons would lead me, and I'm sure a less savvy web user would have even more trouble!

So far I managed to identify from left to right: network? (definitely not intuitive for non-web users), friends/parental controls, favourites?, help/support, close window?.

Also, I fail to see how you hate Arial/Helvetica with a passion for the header (where the mockup shown is surprisingly suitable) but is used in the section below where it looks bland and uninteresting.

The text in the top section is far too small and the mid-grey on light-grey has very little contrast. Plus, being an italicised sans-serif that hinders legibility further.

Where's any search functionality? Today's web users demand quick access to data (of whichever form) and having no search on the main page is just a detraction.

The advert is obtrustive, irrelevant and takes up space that could be used for something useful. May I suggest you review your revenue sources as Google Ads are certainly not the best earners!

In full, a mediocre design... not bad but tediously bland and unexciting (the opposite you want with the young demographic you're undoubtedly aiming at).

Finally, please learn to take criticism, Mr. Cooper! These forum members are only trying to help by suggesting that the navigation font is a bad choice (and in my opinion they are correct)... they are only trying to undermine your design 'skill' if that's how arrogant and ego-tastic you are.

You are not an invincible, amazing designer (neither am I) so please don't act like one. Take the feedback like a man, and better yourself and design skill by embracing it.

Thankyou.

P.S. The CAPTCHAs on this site are incredibly frustrating... it took me about twelve attempts to get in. I'm sure it's better to let a bot in once or twice than keep ten times as many contributing users out.

Perhaps you could consider a system such as reCAPTCHA, although I'm not sure how well that would integrate into a closed vBulletin.

We don't have any captchas on our system, and it is not run by vBulletin, nor any system that is not developed by us.

So what are you talking about?

So far I managed to identify from left to right: network? (definitely not intuitive for non-web users), friends/parental controls, favourites?, help/support, close window?.

The icons, when rolled over, display a tooltip with their action.

The Network Icon is for Administrators. Network Control.
The two people is account management.
Heart is favorites.
? is help and support.
X is logout.

The advert is obtrustive, irrelevant and takes up space that could be used for something useful. May I suggest you review your revenue sources as Google Ads are certainly not the best earners!

What useful things could be there then?

We are currently looking into other revenue sources, and at this current time Google AdSense seems to be the best thing for us.

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