www.fivecentstand.com

http://www.fivecentstand.com/


This is a website for the band Five Cent Stand, I found it using http://www.thebestdesigns.com/ which is a good resource for finding Flash websites.





The music is Pop/Folk style (as they describe it on the site), and the website works well with their style, I like the way that it is published like an old scrapbook and it is cleanly layout, the little image in the top corner of an apple tree with floating apples moves back and forth which also works well.

As for the interaction, it works well, with a mixture of images and texts being clickable links, the news feed section, (shown below), has three links to it, news, bio and journal, which come up in the main section when clicked, the little arrows in circles inside the news feed are used to scroll up & down, I feel these are quite dark and you can only just see the arrow, this may be an issue to some users and could have been made a little lighter.






The gallery which is in the bottom left corner also has three links above it, tour dates, store and gallery, again working within that specific section when clicked upon, the images are links and are bought up on the page in a window with a drag feature which allows you to move the image at your own leisure, which is a good thing seeing as that some of the images pop up in silly places like near the bottom of page meaning you have to scroll down the page to find the close button at the bottom of the image window to turn the image off.



The image below shows picture of the male singer, as you can see the close button is cut off at the bottom of the browser.



Other features include a music player, which you’d expect as it’s a website based on a band, and links to their Blog and Myspace.

I think as a whole, the website works well in places, there are a few things that could be better and the site would work better because of this, after looking at the design of the site and how it is spaced out and everything’s clear to see and find, it is a good strong website and achieves it 's goal of advertising the bands music.