Hi There!


I hope you like this site, I had a lot of fun creating it. In case you didn't recognize it, the top navigation bar is designed like an old car radio (AM, of course) with the old-fashioned push-buttons that you pulled out to set. That was the origin of the now-familiar use of radio buttons. The dashboard is a wonderful simulated walnut.


Being a site for a band which features a radio at the top, it's only natural that there should be music playing, and that it should change when the radio station changes. I understand that this can be annoying, so I've worked out a way to toggle it on and off. The songs play in a separate frame and the player checks a cookie (named "player") and if it's status isn't "on" it won't play. You can toggle the status of the cookie by pressing the button on the left of the radio.


I couldn't really get the player to stop, I just had it play a random short sound instead of the song. Of course, the whole idea fails if you don't allow cookies. But if you do, the state will persist for a week, so if you turn the player off and return to this site later, the player will still be off. If you press the button on the left it will turn on again. Assuming you have javascript enabled. If you don't, none of this works at all.


I rather hope you don't turn the player off, and that you enjoy listening to our song samples. The full songs are available on iTunes and CD Baby (click the CD's button and click on an album cover). You can just visit this site and listen, but I'm hoping you'll be motivated to buy a song or two to keep. Maybe a whole CD!


If you experience any trouble with this site, please feel free to write me (click on the contact button on the radio) and be sure to mention which browser you're using. Each page and style sheet has been checked for and complies with the html 4.01 or css 2.1 specification. I've tested everything on the latest versions of Safari, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, and lynx. I believe a site navigable on lynx will work with braille displays and other aural devices, although I have none to test. I have yet to see this site on a cell phone or blackberry, although I do have a style sheet for media=handheld in which I set the images to display:none.


My main headache is Internet Explorer. I don't have the latest version since Microsoft quit supporting it for Mac. I tested at KMart (free internet access) and my son's school's computer lab. I wound up putting an embed tag inside an object tag if the browser is IE. Which was surprising because it was Netscape which originally used embed, and IE (or Spyglass) which used bgsound. The other problem I found was that IE doesn't fully support PNG. The best part of PNG is the alpha transparency which gives variable transparency - great for drop shadows. But Microsoft left that part out, so for IE I have to change the image to a GIF. Not nearly so nice, and I do it in javascript, so if you turn off javascript, ouch!


If you experience any problem, please email me and please include the information returned when you click the button below. If you don't see the button, or nothing happens when you click the button, tell me that and include as much information as you know about your browser.

Thanks,
Phil