www.thecodexgiga.com <-- is up
Well, because I have too much free time on my hands (between working 60 hours per week, training for the 1/2 marathon, being a dad, being leader of a huge cubscout den, bicycle training, and learning the guitar) I decided to put together a website for my brother's band. In case you missed the story I've been appointed Sound Czar -- like other Czar's I'm woefully under-qualified for my position but I do it anyway.
After one of their shows I asked how the connected the speakers - and then I informed them that daisy chaining too many speakers together was a very bad idea for the amp. At that moment I became the sound czar for the band.
I've been reading up on Pro Audio gear, configurations, and the like for about 2 hours per day for the past two weeks. I've now done done the sound for two small shows both of which had issues but were decent enough.
About that point I decided the band needed a website so I built one. It's been 5 years since I did any sort of regular web work and 10 since I built a website from scratch -- but thankfully the "easy" tools have gotten pretty decent and 4 hours later I had a pretty decent site -- except one thing -- it didn't play music like it was supposed to. It took me 15 hours to troubleshoot that bug - I at least was able to isolate the issue, but didn't really want to put additional hours into disecting the entire site to properly repair it -- then I found a 2 minute work around that made everything work (the only catch is when I add songs to the site, I have to manually edit the playlist).
So anyhow I submit to you www.thecodexgiga.com Things of interest:
After one of their shows I asked how the connected the speakers - and then I informed them that daisy chaining too many speakers together was a very bad idea for the amp. At that moment I became the sound czar for the band.
I've been reading up on Pro Audio gear, configurations, and the like for about 2 hours per day for the past two weeks. I've now done done the sound for two small shows both of which had issues but were decent enough.
About that point I decided the band needed a website so I built one. It's been 5 years since I did any sort of regular web work and 10 since I built a website from scratch -- but thankfully the "easy" tools have gotten pretty decent and 4 hours later I had a pretty decent site -- except one thing -- it didn't play music like it was supposed to. It took me 15 hours to troubleshoot that bug - I at least was able to isolate the issue, but didn't really want to put additional hours into disecting the entire site to properly repair it -- then I found a 2 minute work around that made everything work (the only catch is when I add songs to the site, I have to manually edit the playlist).
So anyhow I submit to you www.thecodexgiga.com Things of interest:
- The Gig Calendar showing past and future gigs
- Some band pictures (which need to be updated)
- Some band bios (still waiting for the members to get that info back to me)
- A feed back section (for both the band and the web design team)
- Links to the Myspace & facebook sites
- A place to submit your e-mail address so you can be the first to know about upcoming gigs, band news, et