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12th November 2004
After the three day turnaround of version 1, we’ll be unveiling version 2 of our Libertines build in the next few days, full of new features, no frames, valid code, accessible forms and all hopefully before the band splits up.
This stage of the build has been keeping me wired for days now. I’ll also be taking a breather to meet up with an unordered list of UK bloggers for art and food in London on Saturday. Aaaand…
Excitingly, if you are anywhere near Nottingham on 9th December, be sure to come down to our fabtastic night of vinyl joy featuring the combined record-playing talents of our showbiz chums The Beta Band, Belle and Sebastian, Bent and our very own in-house Speakers animals. Nobody can actually “mix”, but who cares when the music is “proper”. Anyway, back to the code…
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# James responded on 12th November 2004 with...
How on earth do you get all of those bands into one room at the same time to do something for you. Is it blackmail, dark magic, or a lot of persuasion?
Good luck with the code. I know you had little time, but although the look was good, I wasn’t keen on verson one of the Libertines site because of the frames. Looking forward to seeing a music site that uses standards and accessibility.
# Blair Millen responded on 12th November 2004 with...
Wow, the Libertines site is very impressive… nice work.
# Jamie responded on 12th November 2004 with...
Oooh we love a good b’day bash oop north. Sounds a top night…I might try drag (not that they’ll need much persuading) some of the beat surrender lot down. is there a list we could blag ourselves on to? ;)
# Simon Collison responded on 13th November 2004 with...
Jamie: Nick’s happy with that (if you email him asap) - he’ll put you on the paying guest list at least: info@speakerspushtheair.com
Blair and James: Wait ‘til you see version 2. I just made the whole thing validate (finally) at the test URL.
Malarkey: I thought you were tee-total?
# paul haine responded on 15th November 2004 with...
Will version two have a flash movie that automatically loads music and starts playing it? Because I love that on band websites. The way I can be listening to the radio, or my own CDs, or just surfing on the sly from the office, and then suddenly, my speakers are blaring out a moderately-poor quality sample on top of what I’m listening to, or alerting the entire office as to what I’m doing, usually at a much higher volume. It’s great!
# Simon Collison responded on 15th November 2004 with...
Sorry Paul - version 2 will not load any music automatically. It’ll feature a pop-up player which you optionally open, so sadly we won’t be helping your colleagues find out what you’re up to.
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