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Desoc 
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Joined: December 12 2006 Location: Oslo, Norway Status: Offline Points: 216 |
 Topic: Popular Artists feature added to home pagePosted: February 09 2009 at 04:46 |
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Cool new Popular Artists feature on the frontpage. Are the bands listed chosen by some sort of mathematical equation, or just randomly hand-picked?
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M@X
Forum & Site Admin Group 
Co-founder, Admin & Webmaster Joined: January 29 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4028 |
Posted: February 09 2009 at 16:05 |
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As today I renamed it to POPULAR SEARCHES and it's dased on the searches made on the insite search engine order by number of times theses queries are made.
Any suggestions regarding it ? |
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Prog On !
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ClemofNazareth
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Prog Folk Researcher Joined: August 17 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4659 |
Posted: February 09 2009 at 16:51 |
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Why yes M@x, thanks for asking. ClemofNazareth should be one of the popular searches.
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
Albert Camus |
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debrewguy
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 30 2007 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 3596 |
Posted: February 09 2009 at 18:36 |
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As I've just sent off the Nick Barrett interview questions, I suppose I could email a mention of the appearance of this little group called Pendragon appearing amongst them. But I wouldn't want to get caught if perchance by the time he comes to our site that Pendragon has fallen off the list !
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"Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case.
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darkshade
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Posted: February 09 2009 at 19:49 |
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i guess this would resolve all the "most popular band/artist on this site" threads and related. I thought Yes beat out Genesis but i guess not.
funny how new Miles Davis is to this site and he JUST made the list |
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M@X
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Co-founder, Admin & Webmaster Joined: January 29 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4028 |
Posted: February 10 2009 at 12:51 |
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Ok , based on this discussion , i changed this to POPULAR ARTIST based on the last 30 days most viewed artist page.
I will create another widget for the popular search. Thanks guys , hope this tool helps
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Queen By-Tor
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 13 2006 Location: Xanadu Status: Offline Points: 16111 |
Posted: February 10 2009 at 13:36 |
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Cool! Nice one M@X
 It might also be cool to have 5 random artists on the front page so that the more obscure bands get to spend some time in the spotlight. That might be neat as well. |
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Easy Livin
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Posted: February 10 2009 at 14:41 |
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...and what do we think of the revised layout of the reviews?
Personally, I rather miss the album name and artist being shown above the review. I find myself reading the review and wondering which album it is about.
Other thoughts?
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: February 10 2009 at 14:47 |
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Likewise, although I really do like being able to navigate strait to the artist page rather than having to go through the album page first.
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The Quiet One
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Posted: February 10 2009 at 15:01 |
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^Definitely!
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M@X
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Co-founder, Admin & Webmaster Joined: January 29 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4028 |
Posted: February 10 2009 at 16:02 |
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Ok , I will look into option to bring the title and band name over the review.
thanks for commenting
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Windhawk
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Posted: February 10 2009 at 16:07 |
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Agree. Something along the lines of "Have you heard of these artists" as a descriptor, with a random 5 chosen among the 85% least visited band pages perhaps? What do others think? |
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: February 10 2009 at 16:12 |
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exactly my thoughts! |
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Raff
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Posted: February 10 2009 at 16:16 |
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Seconded . I'd rather see the old layout back, but if it's not possible, we'll survive.... |
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Epignosis
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Posted: February 10 2009 at 16:40 |
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Yup. |
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: February 10 2009 at 17:12 |
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How about the old layout with separate links for Album and artist?
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debrewguy
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Posted: February 10 2009 at 17:52 |
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You mean they're in actual order of preference. I was hoping that it was just random order for the top 30. Or do we prepare for the inevitable " this can't be a real/ fair / true representation" thread such as the top 100 lists and weighting issues debates. |
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"Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case.
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M@X
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Co-founder, Admin & Webmaster Joined: January 29 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4028 |
Posted: February 11 2009 at 00:07 |
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While trying to bring the BAND and CD Name over the front page each reviewsI realize that placing the cover bigger with the album and title name below only AND placing the reviewer name below the text drive more attention to the cover (nice prog cover) and invite us to read all the reviews , instead of filtering the BAND and REVIEWER we already know..
Opinion on this before i continue tweaking the layout ? Thanks |
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Prog On !
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Desoc
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Joined: December 12 2006 Location: Oslo, Norway Status: Offline Points: 216 |
Posted: February 11 2009 at 01:39 |
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I agree that there should be a "headline" to the review. But the way the information now is presented under the album cover is great, imo. And it's an improvement that the links to the album and the artist are separated. |
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: February 11 2009 at 01:42 |
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Maybe have the album name as the headline and have the artist name under the cover? I dunno, it could be interesting |
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