Comments on: 5 Reasons Band Websites Suck (and Some That Don’t)

By: Nico Boesten

Nico Boesten — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:06:32 +0000

Thanks for your honesty in this. I thought you were actually quite kind to the “websites that suck”. A lot more you could have said but these basic tips are key. In my experience, it seems that cash (or the lack thereof) is a major problem and with the rise of DIY sites, a lot of people just don’t get it.

Would love to know your thoughts on the best DIY websites out there…

By: Le Marquis

Le Marquis — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:53:11 +0000

What about the latest trend. Redirecting an Artists webpage to Myspace or Facebook. Seriously!!!

By: MyBandTheme.com

MyBandTheme.com — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:36:57 +0000

Yeah, the worst are the music auto-play ones, you immediately start looking for the mute button, or just hit back. It gets even worse on some of the auto-play sites, when you navigate to a different page on their site, and the auto-play song starts over again with each page load…

Robbieseayband.com is listed as good, and it does look good, but they have auto-play turned on as well, with the abovementioned page and music reload problem :-D

Tom

By: Chicago Kids

Chicago Kids — Wed, 25 May 2011 19:27:09 +0000

Nothing is worse than the auto-play when you open a website. I usually close out before I let the page finish loading.

By: Mom Blog

Mom Blog — Wed, 25 May 2011 19:26:09 +0000

My cousin has a band website that is exactly like the shoddy ones described above!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 13 May 2011 22:06:31 +0000

Haha – gotta love those auto-playing audio players. Thanks for the post – very well thought out.

By: The Alver Valley Web Design Company

The Alver Valley Web Design Company — Thu, 12 May 2011 12:11:26 +0000

great post and great tips! I hate landing pages, generally they’re over-indulgent toss! Chances are i know there’s a bloody lp to promote otherwise i doubt i’d be there! let me get into the site before trying to sell me something! Perfectly correct about the myspace problem, it really looks hideous and sucks big time. no doubt the reason why myspace is slowly dying! why would i what to base my design on something old hat and confusing with no regard for my users sanity! Look forward to more posts. cheers

By: Michael Mallon

Michael Mallon — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:22:07 +0000

Some really good points raised here and some really good examples of good sites. I have a few band sites bookmarked as I have one or two I will hopefully be working on over the next few months.

From my own experience I have found that sometimes it is the band that want everything going mad and music playing. They believe that is why the user is there. I have even argued if that is the case the used can just hit play and make the choice them selfs but only to be ignored. My previous boss was always of the opnion if thats what they want give it to them.

Any hows, thanks for the great post.

By: Back 2D Lab

Back 2D Lab — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:42:26 +0000

It should be called sucky bands and their sites. Just our opinion : D Here’s a good site.

http://www.rush.com/

By: Kim Mer

Kim Mer — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:36:30 +0000

I really like some of the sites here, and great infomation you’ve got here. One site I found today was http://www.isettheseaonfire.co.uk , I hadn’t heard of the band but I just think there website works really well. :)

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By: Ryoga

Ryoga — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:58:40 +0000

It’s funny because there are sites in the bad list that are on hold of a redesign process or have been already redesigned I guess this post started to make some serious buzz, that applies also to the comments section, even the Lenny Kravitz site is under construction now.

although I don’t agree with some of the sites that were classified as “good” there are sites with a lot of clutter there.