UPDATED PAGE, OPINIONS? PHOTO HEAVY WARNING

RonOnGuitar · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916

Best get crackin' on the MSc, lol!! it reeks of work to me!!! Eww!

Y'know, for my money, I think the simplest and most effective way to stream sound (.SWF) is by using a program called "Soundnails". It converts MP3 to swf and generates the html for a player - the whole ball of wax. I'll drop you a note at your website mail addy on it to see whacha think.

There are a few other good simple progs that just convert mp3 to swf - I hate cranking up Macromedia Director to do simple tasks, hahaa!

Ron

Seismic Anamoly · Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 3039

Ok by me, Drooly.... :lol

Phil Frazier · Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 823

Hmm...for some reason I thought the name of the band you are in was Bandit. :smokin

"Dark Sand" uh...guess that's an alright name. Doesn't do much for me but maybe in your culture it has some meanng that I don't know about.

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droolymutt · Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 10:02 am Post subject: Re: Having fun??

Debbie, you look like you're having so much fun in those pictures, and that's fabulous......

At the end of the day, that's what music is for.......

You go, girl....!!

debbie mannas · Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 1352

thanks Drooly! :kizz

Phil, our name was sponsored by Carlsberg really... we were sitting around (and almost coming to fisticuffs over it) trying to settle on a name - dark sand was the ONLY name all of us would agree on (from a list of close to HUNDRED), when a friend of ours said to imagine a crowd chanting the band name over and over - what would work. Well somehow dark sand didnt work with the chant, dark sand dark sand dark sand... so we sat glumly until Colin's girlfriend came up with the Mandarin name. Its pronounced like Asia with a H sound, so easy to remember. Hei-sha, Hei-sha, Hei-sha... hahahaha

Unfortunately some idiot tied it in with Geisha, and the next time he met me he said, say, when is "Sheila" playing next... :toc

takes all kinds

PS: Dont know what my culture is, been confused about that all my life :laugh

debbie mannas · Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 1352

Phil, you're right, for some reason the window in internet explore is called the Bandits... I've changed that reference and it wont go away - must be cached somewhere in cyberspace. Bother.

Anyway, check out the new website background:

www.heisha.net

These are Colins guitars (he has 20 yes - he's a SERIOUS guitar man, you should hear him play), laid one across the other on a carpet. I did some photoshopping, and voila!

Cheers

Edited by: debbie mannas at: 5/25/03 4:46:17 am

bbchris

COOL! You've done something with the site!! Excellent!

As far as the site goes, here are my comments - brutal but meant to be an honest critique:

The background is very busy but I kind of like it for a front page. Not sure it works on the other pages, it's hard to read the history text (in yellow) on this background. I'm tired at the moment and would prefer to read black text on white paper so I'll try again tomorrow...

On the pics page there seems to be a lot of the same photos in the same dim lighting (looks like 48th street to me!!) - they look like possibilites for animated gifs to me - ask Philos - he's the king of that stuff :wgrin

Surely you can add some individual photos of the band members and yourself? I KNOW what you guys look like but no one would recognise you lot from the photos....

Looking forward to seeing the other pages come together - wheeeeeeeeeeeee

debbie mannas · Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 1352

thanks very much for that commentary. I think I would agree on the busy background. I will be checking it out from different computers.

on the photos, course you are right about 48th, our first gig with Harold and John, hahaha, but that page was an experiment in thumbnails - which is not entirely satisfactory, as the pics open in a new browser. I will be messing around with it in the coming week.

Individual photos?? I have plenty of me, but need to get some of the boys. I will wait till we have more of a balance of photos.

Hopefully with the rest of the gigs lined up we can get some decent shots of all of us in action.

Talk to ya soon.

xx

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