http://dmusic.com/lef/dmusicredesign/dmusicrecord.jpg

Hmm, interesting, although I can't help but feel I don't totally understand...

A company could manage fifty or a hundred bands websites, no problem.

Uuumm... That'd be cool, I think.
However... What would happen to all us artists who are not with a record company?

I dunno what it is, but SOMETHING about that new look is starting to chafe...

IDK, the design is alright, but I'm not too sure about the color scheme. looks to Devart-ish

If dmusic were to start hosting RIAA artists (in order to help finance the site?), I fear many of the consequences.

If nothing else, I'd like to see a pledge from you leflaw... promise us that you will NEVER allow a DRM infected file on dmusic servers. If you MUST deal with the RIAA labels, make them play by fair rules!

...grumble, I of course don't like the implications of the "what-if" idea presented here one bit. (But hey, that's my job being the admin guy.)

:worried:

They are "over-thinking" it I think,
but leflaw and team, check this:

Internet users judge Web sites in less than a blink

By Kamakshi Tandon
Tue Jan 17, 3:40 PM ET



TORONTO (Reuters) - Internet users can give Web sites a thumbs up or thumbs down in less than the blink of an eye, according to a study by Canadian researchers.

In just a brief one-twentieth of a second -- less than half the time it takes to blink -- people make aesthetic judgments that influence the rest of their experience with an Internet site.

The study was published in the latest issue of the Behavior and Information Technology journal. The author said the findings had powerful implications for the field of Web site design.

"It really is just a physiological response," Gitte Lindgaard told Reuters on Tuesday. "So Web designers have to make sure they're not offending users visually.

"If the first impression is negative, you'll probably drive people off."

In the study, researchers discovered that people could rate the visual appeal of sites after seeing them for just one-twentieth of a second. These judgments were not random, the researchers found -- sites that were flashed up twice were given similar ratings both times.

They also matched the responses given by subjects who were shown the sites for longer.

But the results did not show how to win a positive reaction from users, said Lindgaard, a psychology professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. "When we looked at the Web sites that we tested, there is really nothing there that tells us what leads to dislike or to like."

And while further research may offer more clues, she said the vagaries of personal taste would always be a limiting factor.

"If design were reducible to a set of principles, wouldn't we find an awful lot of similar houses, gardens, cars, rooms?" said Lindgaard. "You'd have no variety."
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I happen to like the proposed "look" you are working on so far. (Nevermind my above comment/fear about working with RIAA content.) I think you are doing a great job! (Dmusic always HAS done a great job!)

start a seprate web site for that this is an idie site

OK. No DRM here. And RIAA affilaitres have a $1,000 dollar a month surcharge.

well then its ok

I hope I can find my way around in this new fangled modern looking GUI. When I was a kid we didn’t have those fancy dancy GUI thingies---we had Cobol and Fortran and the computers ran off of coal that had to be brought in from the coal shed in below zero temperatures all year round from a mile away up hill both ways! Damn kids and yer fancy Candy-ass GUI’s.

If I get lost for a while when you pull the trigger on this, send in a search party!

No DRM ever AND the RIAA has to PAY to PLAY???

(I love you leflaw!)

(...I'm also HOLDING YOU TO THAT!!! Don't forget, Mp3.com let us ALL DOWN in that regard. Remember?)

very nice! we need a dmusic radio page

Get rid of that "DBlog" trash... Make it a "DJournal" if anything.

folks - just a rough draft showing the "record company part".
The real redesigned dmusic will adress most of your hopes ( and fears)

*agrees with Diz about the DBlog*. I'll about the rest until our hopes and fears are put to the test then Larry.

I told 'em about the word blog. I still don't like that Forums isn't a top level menu choice.

And OWD, do not be quiet. complain and suggest to your heart's content, that's the only way we'll get it right

"advanced search" OOHHH!! I wonder what that lil addition could have...

It probably links to google.

I do agree that since this is an indie site that we should keep the industry out of this. start mixin it up and we may have problems.

On the other hand, it could also be benificial in a way, cuz then it would bring the industry to us.

Either way I still think it's a bad idea. :twocents:

A "live" chatroom. You can read about it on page 2 (near the bottom) @ the following link:

http://www.dmusic.com/forum/suggest/4925-100

Whuuut???

Are you sure you are not opening yourself to label spam hype.. Same ole over and over and over???

Dizeazed.. I don't like chatrooms because before too long, it often degenerates into a guy-thing-my-way-or-get-various-bodily-functions-and-parts-thrown-at-you arguing. Don't believe me?.. I give you mroop.