zircon Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 With Jill's help, I've redesigned and relaunched my personal website, zirconmusic.com! I invite you all to check it out (and, if you'd like, leave some feedback here.) It was challenging to settle on a design and layout that could incorporate all the content I have there, which now includes: Art, descriptions and links to all seven of my original albums and soundtracks A new music for media page featuring 14 previously unreleased tracks I've written for games/film/TV/ads Updated Tutorials page with 7 text guides and 13 categorized video tutorials/walkthroughs Updated web store which now includes all 7 of my albums, retagged as FLAC/MP3 (5.5+ hours of music) plus a collection of sample libraries + presets All of my ReMixes with new writeups, backstory and tidbits on each New Credits page and updated Services page Thanks to Larry, OA and Anso who have all been giving me feedback on the new look + layout. Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dj Mokram Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Congrats on the redesign man, it's super neat and very enjoyable to navigate. Way to end the 'year of the Zircon' with a bang. So far I've encountered only one minor bug that can probably be fixed in 1 second. When you go to the tutorials page through the header menu (http://zirconmusic.com/tutorials/), the link to the text guides leads nowhere. However, using the drop down menu and going straight to 'text tutorials' works perfectly. I believe the issue is that, on the main page, the link is: http://zirconmusic.com/tutorials/guides/ instead of: http://zirconmusic.com/tutorials/text/. Hope this help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollgagh Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 neat grabbed your two newest albums since I hadn't yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrototypeRaptor Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 slick site redesign - when I get some funds I'm definitely going to buy and use some of those sample libraries. Koto Nation sounds fantastic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Briggs Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 wow, these tutorials are going to prove very useful to me in the near future! the sidechaining one already has very very slick design mr. aversa; I wish I could web like you do edit: wow, the text tutorial on beating writer's block is amazing. quit being so goddamned awesome for a second so I can wipe the tears of joy from my eyes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solaphar Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 This is excellent. I can already tell that I'm going to enjoy watching the tutorial vids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabeel Ansari Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 YAY FOR REFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORM i kinda liked your old website, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenon Odyssey Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 OH WAT, the RAR! soundtrack got released? Man, I missed that by a long shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 Thanks for the comments all! Yes, the RAR OST is technically out (as digital, iTunes and physical) but I haven't promoted it heavily yet because the game isn't out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Sounds Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Cool layout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustin Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 This is cool, man. The discographys and credits are stellar. They make you look like the big shit. Because you are the big shit. Really excited for you. I only hope I can be as successful in all my endeavors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Frazier Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Love the redesign zircon! Will have to pick up RAR tout de suite. Minor feedback: On the digital store page, all the album covers are resized to 200x144... Maybe this was an intentional design choice, but to me they look squished since the full covers are square. Elsewise... ever considered using Bandcamp for your digital downloads?(kinda like Protagonist Records does now - See, e.g., http://zircon.protagonistrecords.net/.) One advantage people don't realize about Bandcamp is that listeners can browse by tags/genres and may stumble on your music that way (we had a number of visitors to EFP Vol 2 this way). Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollgagh Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 idk where else to put this, but Oily Robot Lovin' really reminds me of the Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 Love the redesign zircon! Will have to pick up RAR tout de suite.Minor feedback: On the digital store page, all the album covers are resized to 200x144... Maybe this was an intentional design choice, but to me they look squished since the full covers are square. Elsewise... ever considered using Bandcamp for your digital downloads?(kinda like Protagonist Records does now - See, e.g., http://zircon.protagonistrecords.net/.) One advantage people don't realize about Bandcamp is that listeners can browse by tags/genres and may stumble on your music that way (we had a number of visitors to EFP Vol 2 this way). Cheers! Yeah, the store isn't quite where I want it to be yet... it works perfectly, but I need to organize it a bit better. And yea, the graphics are resized poorly - I gotta redo that! As for Bandcamp, I can see the argument for music discovery, but if people buy things through my own store I keep 100% of the money, as opposed to giving 25% of it to someone else. I have the space + bandwidth to host my own FLAC/MP3 stuff, so it's a bit painful to give up a cut like that. But it's something I'll think about, for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chernabogue Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 It looks great! Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSim Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 The site looks great, and $37.99 for your entire discography? I think I'll treat myself this Christmas! Noticed a small typo in the hover-over text for your OCR link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenon Odyssey Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 idk where else to put this, but Oily Robot Lovin' really reminds me of the Hahaha, I don't think I've heard that since I've played OoS a decade ago...but yeah, they sound like long-lost cousins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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