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    Posted: February 09 2009 at 04:46
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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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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Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

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 ?
 
Why yes M@x, thanks for asking.  ClemofNazareth should be one of the popular searches.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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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 !Embarrassed
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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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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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Cool! Nice one M@X Clap


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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...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.
 
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Points: 16111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2009 at 14:47
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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Ok , I will look into option to bring the title and band name over the review.

thanks for commenting
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Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

Cool! Nice one M@X Clap
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.


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?

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Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

...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.


exactly my thoughts!
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Originally posted by Swan Song Swan Song wrote:

Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

...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.


exactly my thoughts!


SecondedClap. I'd rather see the old layout back, but if it's not possible, we'll survive....
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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Originally posted by Swan Song Swan Song wrote:

Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

...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.


exactly my thoughts!


SecondedClap. I'd rather see the old layout back, but if it's not possible, we'll survive....


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How about the old layout with separate links for Album and artist?
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Originally posted by darkshade darkshade wrote:

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


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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Points: 4028 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 00:07
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 ?

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Points: 216 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 01:39
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

...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.


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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Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

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


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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