So the key to developing the main romantech site is to get stuck into the archives, which I’m doing but I’m not really getting right now – why am I writing all this stuff out again?
because in years to come, when and if people choose to delve they’ll find depth. As I move forward I’ll always hark back and the reference will be there. If I remix Hazel’s voice or drop a new version of a tune I did on Data:bass at a gig in 5 years from now I want people to be able to reference the original “Nag Champa” or “Almost Home” or whatever.
With both sites soul science and romantech the front end is built to promote the front end content.
Sign up for the list, get the latest download which will be Dojo inspectors, see videos, find out about the next gig, and any other news.
That’s our front that is rotating, after it rotates off the front in joins the archive which is a back end reference centre. You can reference a chronological timeline, galleries, videos, podcasts, tunes, mixes, it will be a wiki type deal.
An individual tune may not have it’s own page, but it will have it’s own reference to the project or era it was associated with.
So the Data:Bass Net era might have it’s own page, but then later links to pages for each album will come out. And the album might then link to the page for the song “Almost Home”.
So initially it’ll be raw, with broad umbrella subjects. But slowly i’ll add pages for each reference on the timeline, and to other reference bases such as song references, gig references, etc.
I’ll add a page for mixes, and then a page for each mix, Oceanic Chill,Lickwicked,Special Times, Such Heavy Wings, Each Short Circuit – I guess everything that’s mentioned aside from each individual gig will have it’s own page, they’ll have their own pages with the tunes featured.
I’ll just keep adding pages and references and linking. But then there will also be a chronological list of songs for straight downloading etc.
Each individual gig is not likely to be referenced unless it was a major gig with photo content etc.or each song. Gigs will likely to associated with a period and songs with a release or a certai n period.
But also I want to be able to tackle certain concepts such as myspace etc. when electroclash became involved etc. I think I’ll finish the timeline and then think about that.
The visual vibe I guess is magazine style, but to be progressive, video space must dominate. SO the design and imagery is composed toward the video player, but space for variable amounts of writing, a menu bar and a bar for accessing music content must be a default standard, and possibly social media integration.
SO I think I need a modest timeless design for the archive and that way any updates can be focused on the front end.
home page, landing page, music, bio, performance, y’know all the important stuff, and y’know the blog will have it’s own design also so you’ve got the 3 attachments so it doens’t become too challenging when you want to update the design, sections at a time, with the front section obviously being the priority.
There will probably 2-3 major releases each year which I’ll use as the basis of the front end design.
