Mark Sholtez - www.marksholtez.com

Posted by field4000 on June 13, 2010 at 7:11am

www.marksholtez.com

Mark Sholtez is an Australian singer/song writer.

The development of the site was a collaborative effort between Level Four - development (http://www.levelfour.com.au/) and Babekuhl - Design (http://www.babekuhl.com/) on behalf of The Grindhouse (http://www.thegrindhouse.com/).

Comments welcome.

Cheers.

Comments

1. Your top menu images

Posted by ionut.alexuc on June 13, 2010 at 8:16am

1. Your top menu images should use css sprite. There is 1 second to see the hover image.

2. I don't see any reason to use iFrames for the .html page. You can have that in the Drupal theme.

3. when you view source code you will see:

	<!--
	Hi there <?php echo $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]; ?>!

	I hope you enjoy your stay.
	-->

not professional.

4. using that iFrame you loose a lot SEO.
I go to BIO and the site's URL is the same.

5. use aggregate css and js

Ionut

Ionut Alexuc Drupal Developer

Hi ionut.alexuc, Thanks for

Posted by field4000 on June 14, 2010 at 4:25am

Hi ionut.alexuc,

Thanks for your comments.

2. This is necessary. As the site is for a musician, when the music player is playing, the iframes allows for continuous music without the need to restart the track every time the user navigates away from a page.

4. SEO is not really necessary in this instance. Most users will search for the musician's name, not so much for the musician's bio or store. Right now, if one searches for the musician's name, it is the first entry on Google.

3. Cheeky, yes. Unprofessional, I'm not sure. It is just my way of saying hello to the sticky beaks.

I am glad you took the time to critique my site.

Cheers.

"2. This is necessary. As the

Posted by socialtalker on June 28, 2010 at 3:38am

"2. This is necessary. As the site is for a musician, when the music player is playing, the iframes allows for continuous music without the need to restart the track every time the user navigates away from a page."

oh, thats how you do it. i will to remember that. i like it when the song keeps playing no matter if you change the page

a very nice site, i nearly didnt see the player at the top because it its subdued muted taupe color, dark green like the lettering might make it better for the folks like me. but the site is probably geared towards young people with good eyesight

I likes nice clean site

Posted by dredot on July 3, 2010 at 2:14pm

In regards to SEO it should be able pick up the direct page without music player... and that would be their lost.. :-)

questions,

what MP3 flash module are you using or is it custom based?

Did you use the iframe module or manually created the iframe

what MP3 flash module are you

Posted by field4000 on July 5, 2010 at 11:29pm

what MP3 flash module are you using or is it custom based?

I bought a Flash player from Active Den: http://activeden.net/. They sell all sorts of media players.

Did you use the iframe module or manually created the iframe

I created the iFrame manually. It is relatively simple to create an iFrame. You can see what I've done by viewing the page source.

Frame in frame issue.

Posted by jwero on August 12, 2010 at 3:07pm

Thanks for this post. I was looking to do the exact same thing. One issue I found, and it's on www.marksholtez.com too, since drupal natively isn't built on frames, what will happen in this scenario when you click on the website logo to return home.....it essentially creates a frame within a frame, you'll get 2 players (or x players depending on how many times you click). This is because your htaccess is probably setup like mine, to deliver index.html. When drupal renders the front page, it looks up the base URL and uses that for the logo. So in this case for you, it's probably has www.marksholtez.com. When a user clicks on the site logo with a URL of www.marksholtez.com, htaccess says deliver index.html, which causes the frame in frame issue. I've temporarily resolved it on the site I was creating, by changing the logo URL in page.tpl.php from <div id="logo"><a href="<?php print $front_page; ?>" to <div id="logo"><a href="<?php print $front_page . 'index.php'; ?>".

Thought I would post that for anyone else who may need it as well. Thanks again for this post.

Jason
www.solutionsunion.com

My only criticism though is quite a major one - the image lightbox doesn't resize to fit on the screen and there's no apparent way to close it (clicking cycles through the images.)