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08/08/2001 Archived Entry: "Music"

Well, New Mars is pretty much finished now, albeit not 'live' - I'm hoping to get the official go-ahead sometime later today and prepare for the floods (read as: trickle) of visitors that will no doubt appear as if out of the ether.

I'm pretty pleased with the website; I'd intended it originally to look essentially like what it does now (I have a sketch that I did a few weeks ago before I went to America on a piece of paper somewhere). It should strictly have some more dynamic information, like recent posts on the forum and so on except SSI nesting isn't enabled on the server yet. But on the whole, the clean and simple look suits the website very well and concentrates the reader's attention on the writing as opposed to fancy graphics or adverts.

Surprisingly enough, it's the first major website that I've done since Generation Mars or the redesign of this site, whichever was most recent, and it only took me about three days of fairly hard work (hard work being defined as 6 to 8 hours of coding, frowning, rewriting and editing per day). It's nice to be doing something productive again.

I've been listening to a lot of old music in the past few days - usually Johnny B. Goode gets played an even dozen times every day, and every time I hear it I get a flash of imagery for this type of music (which is frequented by 'coming-of-age' teenage flicks set in the 60s/70s) - there should be some kind of naive-but-about-to-receive-a-sharp-shock male teenager doing a voiceover over it as the movie shows him, in his typically antiquated 60s/70s clothes, driving around in a Chevy in America...

Anyway. It's all very strange.

Seeing as I have the rest of the day off (my life seems peculiarly empty now that I've finished the New Mars website) I think I'll probably put an end to the A.I. web game's insidious involvement in my life and finish off the Guide.