A restructure of the Interviews page

Hi.

I would suggest a reconstruction of the Interviews page.

My suggestion is that the opening page reads as a list.

The opening page (Interview index page):

(...........) 

Orford, Martin  (August 2009)

Panzerpappa (June 2008)

Testa, Stefano (June 2009)

(...............)

The names should be clickable and then open the interviews.

I think interviews are an important part of ProgArchives and I would like to do more of them/see other do more of them. The reason is that nobody lives forever. 2009 saw the deaths of a lot of our musicians. If we get their first hand/witness accounts of our favorite bands and the events surrounding them before they passes away, ProgArchives will become an important historic database for the future generations. Take the Stefano Testa interview as a good example (Mr. Testa is still alive, btw). 

That is my two pence worth of brainfog.

Any other views ?

 

 

Edited by toroddfuglesteg - January 04 2010 at 04:28

Easy Livin wrote: Sounds like a good idea. The interviews have a longer life than other parts of the forum, and are a good way to bring people into the site.   We could do this in a quick way just by restructuring the thread headings. Are you suggesting something more refined than that though?

I am not sure if I get what you mean here. But from my own, now thankfully deceased magazine, I did it this way:

From the forum or any other anchorage page you choose from (the index page), the link opens the page to the interviews like for example:

 http://www.toroddfuglesteg.com/interviews.html which equals today's http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=47 in PA. 

From there, you can open each individual interview.

You still keep the three hottest and most topical interviews on the front/indexpage www.progarchives.com as we do today. 

I am not sure if I have answered your question though......

You can also have a "This month's featured interview" feature or "the latest five/xx interviews" on the interview index page.  

EDIT, 7 hours later:

There is a certainties that these interviews will be available for the public in 50 -100 years time too. Well after my death and well after the death of everyone of the interviewed artists. These interviews will therefore be a KNOWLEDGE base and very probably a very valuable one too (in a historic sense). I suggest nothing less than preserving and making the interviews page more accessible as a knowledge base for us in 2010 and those in 2110.

Edited by toroddfuglesteg - January 04 2010 at 09:50

I can imagine ProgArchives in 2100...database will have 100000 artists, our grandchildren will be evaluating new proposals, Max's grandson will be tweaking and improving the web site, and some newbie will suggest Dire Straits for prog-related

But seriously though, perhaps some interview will be just as precious as an interview in 1969 with some unknown band called King Crimson before releasing their debut! So I welcome the idea