New tune and new Muteqx website - finally!

[Dave S]

On Saturday 29 Nov 2008, Peter Korsten wrote:
> It didn't validate. ;)
> Kidding!

BASTARD!!  You made me have to check again, just to be sure.

Actually, I know the comments form doesn't validate since it 
uses "aria-required" in the form, which is post-XHTML so not part of the 
standard.  (Actually, I'd never encountered that until I started hacking 
around the Wordpress template that formed the basis of this design.)

> But those two W3C logos, even though they're pretty 
> unobtrusive, are something I personally would consider removing. I know
> you find them important, but this sort of thing you usually find on a
> site owned by people without a social life. :)

LOL!!  Well, I just became a parent so my social life has taken somewhat of a 
nosedive - though not a total crash, but quite a different direction.  
Actually, going out socialising with a baby is great fun, as long as you go 
to the right kind of places.

> But look at it this way: the people who find it important would already
> know, with a plug-in in Firefox that shows a nice green check mark, and
> the people who don't care about this sort of thing, well, they don't
> care. So in a sense, they're a but superfluous, because they have
> nothing to do with the essence of the site.

That's not a bad point, but I generally do it because it shows I care about 
making a website which is built to standards that should work on just about 
any browser.

I look at it the other way around - people who don't care about it won't 
notice it, and people who do care will appreciate that I've made the effort.

I'll think about this some more, but I reckon for now it'll stay, even if it 
marks me out as an uber-geek.

Let's face it though - you have to be quite a geek to be into music 
technology!  Anybody who can easily spend a whole day sat in front of a 
computer shunting little rectangular blocks around the screen has got to have 
more than just a little bit of nerdyness about them, right?

These days, it's considered relatively cool to be relatively uncool.  ;-)

> Other than that, I have nothing much to complain about. I agree with
> Gert that the piercing looks a bit like you have a bad cold :) and the
> contact page is a bit empty, although I'm wouldn't know what to suggest
> what you could do about it.

A contact form (and booking information... maybe!?!?) should be going there 
soon.  The music page is also not quite right yet, because I want the entries 
to have stemmed from blog entries on the dates that I posted the tunes (which 
will happen soon enough).

Anyway, thanks for the feedback, much appreciated!

Cheers,

~Dave