Effective or not?

[gameon]

Hi I've just put up a page to promote a new dance release.

We are arguing whether its effective, or is just going to anoy people.

If you have some seconds, would you be able to have a peak and let me know:

- is the idea sound
- does it inspire you to click play

- its targeted for high connection spead, but there is a dialup version option

Its has 2 different tracks, at 2 different streaming rates.

It also has an 'email a media version to a friend' feature and I think its quite funky. Which embeds the whole thing so it can be played from inside an email, without launching a browser.

The web version:

http://www.transcend-records.com/kinetica-letgo-web.cfm

To send it to friends, and to preview what its like embedded in an email:

http://www.transcend-records.com/kinetica-letgo.cfm

Cheers,

M@)

 

[xutopia]

looks alright. There are a few usability things here that could be taken care of but I find it's a cool page.

There is one problem that is very annoying though. Could you add volume="10%" (I'm not sure how to tell the media player to start at 10% volume.

I had the mishap of trying one of the songs and the cat hates me now. Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[gameon]

Hi again Gary, what level was your sound at?

I can set it to 10%, but then it would start really quiet.

Maybe just a warning that it's hard trance? :0)

What are the usability things?

M@)

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

One thing. When a user sends the track to a friend, WHY do you subscribe that person to a mailing list? You are making the site look like another spam magnet.

I just sent a mail from the site, receive a mail telling me that I need to send a mail to be removed. If I received that from someone then I would delete it and filter the address.

Not once does it mention that it is a mailing, other than a single e-mail. Don't try to trick users otherwise you end up losing out yourself.

Hope this helps Wullie

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[gameon]

I don't subscribe anyone to anything. I just track who has looked at things, to show the conversion to the clients.

NoOne gets to see the emails, they are used only to identify a user thought the site. I could have generated GUI's but I couldn't be bothered for such a small project.

No one gets spammed, no emails get added to anything.

I hate spam! Spammers could all be burned. Well may be that's a little harsh. They sould have there hands cut off. NO..no did it again. They shouldn't spam. (finally).

I put the remove thing in because the people launching it could not confirm to me that they were sending it to an opt in list...

M@)

 

[gameon]

I've taken the remove thing off.

If I'd had time, I would have requested an email so that friends new who had sent the email.

But, they could just make up an email - then I would have had to build a registration thing.

It isn't designed to send to huge lists, just to a couple of mates. (in which case, I should have added a message bit), but then I would have need to put a abuse script to remove harsh words and stuff).

I did this for free, so the client got a fairly skeletal system.

But, I will make any quick changes that you may suggest...

Cheers,

M@)