Binaerpilot.info - Free Electronic Music from Norway

Discussion in 'Websites' started by astoever, Apr 19, 2008.

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    Binaerpilot.info is my pride and joy (so any harsh feedback will be met with unreleting denial -- just kidding). This is a website where I offer all the music I make for free to the general public. It initially started as a single .html-file listing all the MP3's in my homedir for my friends to download, but over the past few years it has grown at a steady pace (through word of mouth). Now the site is up at ~200 uniques a day, so I decided it was time to make it prettier and more accessible to the general public. Posting it here to expose it to, well, complete strangers (no offense guys!). So please check it out, and more importantly check out the music ;)

    http://www.binaerpilot.info

    I'm pretty content with the design, but I would really like some input on how you experienced the content. I recently added a streaming player and made various other tweaks to make it easier for new visitors. It has dropped the bounce-rate by about 10% so far so I think I'm heading in the right direction.

    I know this isn't the proper forum, but I thought I'd mention that I am very interested in befriending people who might be interested in affiliation etc. I don't make any money of this site, and I don't intend to, but I'm very keen on getting it more exposure.
     
    astoever, Apr 19, 2008 IP
  2. mister_doodi

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    Slow initial load but gets better after that. Interesting content and a cool design.
     
    mister_doodi, Apr 19, 2008 IP
  3. astoever

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    Cheers mate! The load-time is one of the things I'm working on.
     
    astoever, Apr 19, 2008 IP
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    Sharply designed site, good colours and it loaded pretty fast too, I always love free music, well done!
     
    sydneyaus, Apr 20, 2008 IP
  5. astoever

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    Thank you!

    I've enabled gzip compression of all php/html/css/javascript now, so initial load is down with ~70%.
     
    astoever, Apr 20, 2008 IP
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    I would play with the color schemes a bit. Black and gray seems more like a funeral.
     
    sheryl, Apr 20, 2008 IP
  7. astoever

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    Not exactly the impression I was going for ;) But I have been thinking about adding an optional 2nd scheme with more color, we'll see.
     
    astoever, Apr 20, 2008 IP