[thelist] ani difranco fans? comments?

[aardvark]

> From: AtdtXav <atdtxav at yahoo.com>
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> First of all... I love ani! *grin*  Seen her on tour twice.  

cool... fans always give good perspective...

> Second... the biggest issue I have with the site, more than
> anything else, is you have links that don't go anywhere.  Huge
> nono in my book.  As an example, www.vedbok.com has two links on
> the left side that are not implemented yet.  They are greyed out
> and do not act as actual links, only images.

yeah, that's how we wanted to do it (and do for the two missing 
main nav items), but the others were still in development and 
awaiting content when the client basically said, "launch!"

i agree, but our plan is to have those links start to go somewhere 
starting monday... hopefully...

> Your FAQ and legal jive and mailing list links, which appear in
> multiple places, go nowhere.  I LOVE the mouseover "fire just
> waiting for fuel" as an indicator that those sections are to be
> added later.

yeah, that mouseover is the bomb... i thought it was cool when i 
saw it, and strangely clear...

> I see she has no plans to tour in MI.  I'm bummed.  However
> again, I see a heck of a lot of information about ani, her tour,
> her albums, etc.  I guess I don't really consider it a real
> company so long as it's "ANI!!!!!  .... and the other stuff." 
> Assuming that, say, Drums and Tuba are opening for her again, 
> -why- do I have to go to THEIR website to find out which dates? 

ultimately, a lot of that info will appear at the RBR site, but at the 
same time, we don't want to redo everything they are doing... their 
fans go to their sites... RBR is going to be a generic parent site in 
case DnT wants more features and the like, but we don't want to 
compete with their site... hopefully that makes some sense...

> Why when going to the tour menu do I see the names of each
> bandmember bolded in blue... and they aren't linked?  This would
> be a perfect place to link to a brief bio of each member.

you're the second to say that, and i like the idea... i plan to pitch 
it... as rollovers, i think, would be one way to do it... otherwise 
straight hyperlinks...

> The graphics, I like. :)  The animation on the front page is muy
> muy slow, and honestly, if I was going to the site on my own
> time I would have assumed the 3 items on the bottom (along with
> the white links that don't work) was the whole kit and kaboodle.
>  Patience doesn't mix with Cable. ;)

heh... well, timing will be revisited... but feedback helps on that...

> Anyway.  Totally happy to hear that you're working on ani's
> site.  This is the first time I've seen an evolter work on
> something I can really sink my teeth into, tastewise. :)

cool, glad to hear it... we have other stuff i know you've heard of, 
but it isn't nearly so fun to do...

> (besides evolt.org itself, of course)

well, i *do* have a day job... i think...