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Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Top five official artist-website mistakes

If you've evered used band & artist websites to actually look up information about this or that band or artist, you'll probably feel very at home amidst the top five annoyances that "43 folders" is listing.
However: I don't agree at all with the n°4 mistake "never get too artsy, too fartsy". Why: because I think that creative types should also get creative with their website. And creative means thinking outside the box, finding new ways, experimenting. A music band is more than facts: it's an image, an icon, it's often a lifestyle. And the website should reflect that. Build that image. Suck you into their world. It cannot be boring unless it wants to transmit the message that the artist itself is a boring old sock.
I second the inclusion some of the commenters make: never, NEVER, start playing audio in your interface unless I've asked for it. With iTunes or other Musicmatches playing on the PC in the background, this has got to be my n° 1 annoyance with music websites.

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