I’ve been trying to plot a new design for the band’s site. I’m not coming up with anything. Or rather, I’ve come up with half a dozen things that I lay out and really think I’m onto something - for about a day. Then I hate it. In search of inspiration I must have looked at about a zillion music related sites. That got to be hard work after a while.

Of course, a couple of things don’t help. I’m not really a designer at all for one. I’ve got some art background, but no design training, which is a different deal altogether. I started doing this when it was more of a homebaked type of thing. There was no Flash and if you had music on the site it was a .wav file that lasted a few seconds, or a midi file, which sounded really bad. Hell…I think tables were new. Most people who put websites together weren’t trained in design then. It’s a different deal now. It’s been redesigned before, several times, in fact. But that was before they started giving me creative input.

Of course, the band itself is not much help. The creative input I get from them is vague at best. They decided they need a redesign in honor of their new logo and I can see that. I asked what they’d like. What I had in mind was being pointed toward sites they like and an idea of what kind of look they think best represents them now. You know..sleek and sophisticated, earthy, funky or what. The only one who had an answer said, “Round!”. It seems he doesn’t like right angles. The music doesn’t have right angles, you see.

On the upside, I did come up with a favicon for them. It’s my first favicon. Of course they never asked for one and I’m not at all sure they know what a favicon is, so I’m not sure that counts as progress.