I was just there.
I got my TRT CD last night, and it has www.sunnydayrealestate.com on the
back. It leads me to believe that artistdirtect didn't have the site
ready yet, and this site went up so timebomb wouldn't sue them. All they
did was a topnav, a leftnav, the front images and images for apparel and
cd's. I wouldn't be surprised if they stole the cd images from John and
Reb's site (nexusx.com/sdre). Big sites like this generate their html on
the fly, or have templates for production teams to plug content
into. This is in no way several months worth of work. SDRE and timebomb
got robbed.
Maybe we should start a web petition to either bring back Brian's site, or
make "in the blue" the official site. AD DOES have a working merch site,
the new official site can just link to it. ITB (abbrev in the blue) has a
great bulletin board setup (better than ad's) and is sdre-l friendly. I'm
willing to conspire with all the big webbheads as to how we can outshine
AD's page and win SDRE/timebomb over.
Dan T.
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, L.D. Ferris wrote:
> ...as I'm sure most of you know. All I have to say is this - is it
> possible, Brian, that you could get a job at Artist Direct and show them
> how to make a half-decent web page? I mean, honestly, it's about as
> uncomplex as you can get! Really, it's as if they heard us bitchign over
> here these past two days, said "Whoops, forgot about that web page for
> that band!" and put it together in a dy and a half. These guys are
> experts?
>
> It's content isn't even consistent. It has tour dates missing from it's
> webpage that were in the email that were sent out (July 6 or 8th or
> something), but what is worse is that both the email AND the web page are
> missing at least one date - the July 4th one in Toronto, which I just got
> my tickets for today, so they sure as hell better be playing...
>
> The links from the email they sent otu don't even work, and I see nothing
> about a bag on the website that they mention in the email. Admittedly,
> this coudl be my own server's fault, it wouldn't be the first time I'd
> gotten email links that don't work...
>
> The link section links the the ubl page for SDRE. Now that's just fucking
> lazy. The chat room isn't even up - maybe they will link it to
> instructions on how to join the pre-existing efnet one, just like they
> link to the pre-existing ubl for thier link page..
>
> The BBS is up and running, but I prefer the mailing list. I'm totally
> impartial in that. :) Speaking of which - where the hell is the link to
> the mailing list?
>
> All in all, it's become quite obvious why they took down Brian/Ansigod's
> page so early on - they wanted us to forget what a good page looked like
> so that we might process this shit more easily.
>
> Everyone who sees the guys at the shows should ask "What happened to your
> good web page, and why did you get a shitty one put up instead?"
>
> Also, the logo on the homepage isn't loading, and they have the wrong page
> titles on some of the pages as well.
>
> I notice there isn't a feedback link anywhere in sight...probably the only
> smart thing they did with the page.
>
> Bring back Brian!
>
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