The Official Kirsty Crawford Website
www.kirstycrawford.com
August 2005
Singer/songwriter Kirsty Crawford's official website is a fully featured Flash site launched in August 2005 (see promotional e-mail design).
Site features include: fully animated scripted Flash transitions, embedded XML news ticker, customised natural-feel scrollbars, embedded custom MP3 player, dynamically-loaded photo gallery
Built with: Flash MX/8, Photoshop CS, Dreamweaver 8
The official Kirsty Crawford site was developed as part of my ongoing work with Rocket Music Management Ltd. Extensive meetings and discussions ensured that the site reflected exactly what the artist and management required and I was even present to help direct photography at two dedicated photo shoots.
| All sites I have developed for Rocket Music feature a bar along the bottom which promotes other sites in the network. What at first just looks like a series of links pops-up a floating information box as each artist's url is hovered over. This promotes each other act in the roster without intrusion and each bar, though identical in format, is styled according to the host site. Visit www.kirstycrawford.com, www.rocket-music.co.uk or www.johnandcece.com to see for yourself. |
Lisa Theunissen - Official Website
www.lisatheunissen.com
March 2006
I developed this site for South African singer/songwriter Lisa Theunissen based on an original design mock-up she provided, working with her to ensure the site reflected her promotional ambitions, and was also easy enough for her to update herself.
Site features include: fully animated interface with engaging page transitions and mouse effects, MP3 player, text and MP3s can be updated by Lisa herself, gallery, PayPal integration
Built with: Flash 8, Photoshop CS, Dreamweaver 8
The Complete Stone Roses - Official Website
www.stoneroses.net
March 2006
The Complete Stone Roses are one of the most successful tribute acts in the UK, seen by 70,000 paying fans each year and frequently selling out top venues such as the Carling Academies. Their website at stoneroses.net has been designed to serve as an online reflection of that success and a resource for fans and promoters alike.
Their new site has been built within a content management system and is designed to be updateable by the band's management on the road. This is key to ensuring that all gig dates, news items and photos are as up to date as possible.
I am also currently conducting an overhaul of the largest Stone Roses website on the net, porting the old content into a new refreshed design which will sit as a sister site to stoneroses.net.
Site features include: fully content management system driven, gallery, videos, password-protected press section with full login system
Built with: Photoshop CS, Dreamweaver 8, Expression Engine, Flash 8
Chelsea Venues
www.chelseavenues.com
November 2005
Developed as a corporate website for the private hire and booking of five of Chelsea's most fashionable nightclubs and bars, chelseavenues.com has a clean corporate feel with subtle style.
Site features include: online booking and registration (not currently live), subtle photo animations using Flash 8 filters, animated venue logos
Built with: Flash 8, Photoshop CS, Dreamweaver 8
As well as providing a central site for corporate customers, chelseavenues.com contains a minisite for each of the five featured venues, with tailored information and photography set within the overall site style.
Star 69 Official Website
www.alanmccann.co.uk/star69/launch
April 2003
Completed in April 2003, thestar69.com was a fully-featured, technologically diverse and heavily client-driven project, designed for Scottish soft rock band Star 69.
Site features include: gallery, downloadable Flash desktop clock, fanbase building guestbook and mailing list, custom-built Flash MP3 Player, RealPlayer SureStream built into MP3s page, enables users with both fast and slow connections to listen to the band's music, streamed dynamically to suit the user's computer.
Built with: Fireworks MX, Flash MX, Photoshop 7
The online branding of the up-and-coming quartet was begun as early as Summer 2002 when work was completed on the band logo. From there, constant discussions with the band's frontman and management developed the look, feel and style of the band's digital presence.
During several iterations, such as an early beta site, key decisions, including band font, colour scheme and graphic style were made, giving a solid visual foundation on which to build the final version of the site.
Closed when the group disbanded over a year ago, the site had just launched a new customised fan forum.
Kirsty Crawford Fansite Redesign
www.kirstyc.com
February 2006
This redesign of the hugely popular Kirsty Crawford fansite at kirstyc.com was intended to bring the fan website more in line with Kirsty's musical style. The original site (featured on this page ) was built before I knew Kirsty and before much of her musical development.
As kirstyc.com has always ranked above her official site in search engines this redesign was important to ensure that people got the right first impression of this modern singer/songwriter.
Built with: Photoshop CS, Dreamweaver 8, Flash 8
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