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Fresh Redesign: The Future of Phlow-Magazine.com
"Form follows function!" | No question, we are proud to present you the redesign of Phlow-Magazine.com. In last september our first goal was to digg deep into the netaudio-scene and present you everyday free music for your mp3-player. In the last week, we spend some time to optimize the xhtml, design and to give our magazine a fresh look. Please throw an eyeball or two on Phlow-Magazine.com and tell us in the comments how you like the improvements and what you expect from us in the next months! Any suggestions, criticism and ideas for the future?!? We would love to listen to your wishes!
With our redesign I tried to use a lot of white space to deliver a fluffy and airy look. Lots of needless pictures and styles have been deleted and the xhtml-code behind the website looks more streamlined and clearly arranged - but that's for nerds, I guess.
Upcoming Next: More insights on the musiciains
In the first phase Brigitte, Sven and I took a deeper listen to music. In the next and upcoming phase we want to try to publish interviews and portraits of musicians who release their music under a creative commons or for free. Here in germany there isn't nearly any coverage of musicians from netlabels. That's bad, we think. So prepare for some serious interviews and portraits of netlabels, producers and creative commons activists.
Sometimes we ask ourselves: "Where's all the cover-artwork gone?!?" That's why, we will spend in the next months also a look on well-designed netlabels and of course breath-taking release-artworks. Sven and I love to take a look on artworks and we enjoy interesting artworks.
Last not lease there are some Phlow-Compilations and Phlow-Netaudio-Mixes coming up. Thanks to the creative commons licences compilations are an easy way to handle.
The future looks bright, stay with us and enjoy some really great music :)
About the Author
This article was written on 30.January 2008 by mo..
mo. is a music-lover. The journalist and author from Cologne/Germany enjoys supporting the global netlabel-phenomena. For years he has explored the netlabel underground and has written numerous articles on the free music culture. He is the main-editor behind Phlow. Read more articles written by mo..
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5 comments
Hi Phlow, nice redesign: less is more; this is nice to navigate and to find the most important netlabel-stuff.
1 remark: the 'music search' button doesn't do anything on my mac (safari + firefox)
c hear s!
30. Jan 2008 at 10:29 pm
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hey embe! thanks for that note on the search button. i will try to solve the problem. thanks!
30. Jan 2008 at 10:32 pm
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awesome mo! big leap fwd. i'm in oxford currently having some problems accesing the internet inna proper way... hope this problem solves asap :(
31. Jan 2008 at 12:37 pm
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[...] mo. worked out a fresh new design for our beloved Netaudio-blog Phlow Magazine (which I am an integral part of, as you might know). Switch over, dig the music, leave a comment [...]
31. Jan 2008 at 1:27 pm
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great, the 'music search' button works now!
danke!
31. Jan 2008 at 3:03 pm
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