Stereo Gum
When you visit this page the first thing that comes to your attention is the horrible clash of the orange-ish showing an eye wearing brown background with the sky blue foreground. Across the top, a moving add banner a crown set in the center of the six members of a band known as The Cat Empire. As soon as the eye blinks the banner switches to the info for The Cat Empire. This info includes the band's myspace address, their web url, and the release date for their new CD.
Underneath this banner on the left is the low quality logo for the page, two tone, no effects, no filters, no layers, no nothing. The logo is also placed awkwardly within the space given. Amateur artist, at the most. They should visit this tutorial.
To the right of this terrible logo is the Gum Buzz Index. This index consists of various TV shows, music artists, and Famous people written in various colors and in various font sizes. The smallest words are virtually impossible to read, not only are they about a font size 8, they are also an untypical font, a script font that is hard to read in general.
To the left of the Gum Buzz index is a list of the Bloggers for the site, Scott Capative and Armit Singh. Below that, a Contact Us heading, with a link to tips at stereogum.com, the page your already on that, does not work. Under that, Information for ad rates and press. Next Syndication, stereogum RSS, and finally Our Theme Song, by Roger O’ Donnell… don’t click that link, trust me, worst song I’ve ever heard.
Under this menu is a Google search bar that you can use to search ‘Gum or Google, finally something I would actually consider putting in my blog. This is by far the best part of this page because it has the capability to take you away from it.
The rest of the listed items are pretty much self explanatory, Categories, Under Review, Download MP3’s, Latest Comments.
Then there are the links for the Myspace site and YouTube site for Stereogum.
Following this, the Recent Posts, and The Cool Kids.
The main content of this page consists of an array of pictures, television clips, videos, music, and music video’s. The posts are not really related other than the fact that they all have to do with entertainment. There is no true organization to the posting order, or at least none that I can see. I believe that the posting order might be going by current events, but I’m not positive.
Last but not least, the credits for the hosting, designing, logo maker, and moveable type.
In this site I found nothing other than the Google search bar, that I would want to put in my site, with only one semester of high school web design under my belt I’m a better web page designer than the creators of stereogum.com. Although they may have more info on their site, their organization and eye for graphic design is terrible.
When you visit this page the first thing that comes to your attention is the horrible clash of the orange-ish showing an eye wearing brown background with the sky blue foreground. Across the top, a moving add banner a crown set in the center of the six members of a band known as The Cat Empire. As soon as the eye blinks the banner switches to the info for The Cat Empire. This info includes the band's myspace address, their web url, and the release date for their new CD.
Underneath this banner on the left is the low quality logo for the page, two tone, no effects, no filters, no layers, no nothing. The logo is also placed awkwardly within the space given. Amateur artist, at the most. They should visit this tutorial.
To the right of this terrible logo is the Gum Buzz Index. This index consists of various TV shows, music artists, and Famous people written in various colors and in various font sizes. The smallest words are virtually impossible to read, not only are they about a font size 8, they are also an untypical font, a script font that is hard to read in general.
To the left of the Gum Buzz index is a list of the Bloggers for the site, Scott Capative and Armit Singh. Below that, a Contact Us heading, with a link to tips at stereogum.com, the page your already on that, does not work. Under that, Information for ad rates and press. Next Syndication, stereogum RSS, and finally Our Theme Song, by Roger O’ Donnell… don’t click that link, trust me, worst song I’ve ever heard.
Under this menu is a Google search bar that you can use to search ‘Gum or Google, finally something I would actually consider putting in my blog. This is by far the best part of this page because it has the capability to take you away from it.
The rest of the listed items are pretty much self explanatory, Categories, Under Review, Download MP3’s, Latest Comments.
Then there are the links for the Myspace site and YouTube site for Stereogum.
Following this, the Recent Posts, and The Cool Kids.
The main content of this page consists of an array of pictures, television clips, videos, music, and music video’s. The posts are not really related other than the fact that they all have to do with entertainment. There is no true organization to the posting order, or at least none that I can see. I believe that the posting order might be going by current events, but I’m not positive.
Last but not least, the credits for the hosting, designing, logo maker, and moveable type.
In this site I found nothing other than the Google search bar, that I would want to put in my site, with only one semester of high school web design under my belt I’m a better web page designer than the creators of stereogum.com. Although they may have more info on their site, their organization and eye for graphic design is terrible.
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