I have made a music player available to visitors of Mixing Live Sound. The technical aspect is taken care of, but I will add more content and variety to the player. I want to add a page explaining the player and the music a bit more. I will also be adding a video section in this round of expansion of the site.

This was a very good exercise. I had, at some point, figured out how to open a player directly with a link and then forgot how I had done this. On my AudioArt MusicPlayer site it takes too many clicks to open a player. With this experience as well as observations and added experience perhaps I can now make that site work more in the way that I originally wanted it to work.

The videos page/pages are no problem. I am using YouTube videos on several sites. I even have four videos up on YouTube myself (I hope the link works, I have not tried this before). Last year I considered buying a video camera, but the ones that I liked were out of the budget for my intended purposes. I have not been big into videos, although I did have a nice 8mm camera and projector at one time. Video on the consumer level has come a very long way since that time.

Getting good relative content for the video pages will be the biggest problem. I have a couple of mine and the two SAC videos that I will feature and maybe find a few more. I will call for recommendations through the comment system, as well.

Well, I had better leave you now and go fuss with the sites. Stop by and check out the changes if you get the chance.

I did a minor update to Mixing Live Sound. This was just cleaning up the code a bit on the existing pages. I do have some new pages in the planning stage and I want to redo the home page.

I am thinking of adding a YouTube music related videos page. I have a couple of my own videos and can find many that are much better. These might make the pages a bit more sticky. I am also thinking of adding a music player page to the site since it is about sound. I have considered adding a blog to the site to post quick tips and blurbs that are too short to make a real article page. A blog is quick and easy and one can post from anywhere that there is a computer and an Internet connection.

I have several article ideas on my to do list as well. I do have many visitors that read the articles, so more content for the site will make it a more interesting place to visit.

Mixing Live Sound is a niche site for the live sound mixing business. There is a good deal of interest in the subject matter from the local band level. People that do their own sound and want to do a better job are the primary audience at the present time, I suspect. For the specialized terms I get first or second page position in the search engines. I have even seen a #1 in Yahoo search results. I get visitors to this site from around the globe.

I had done some preliminary work on the Mixing Live Sound site, primarily to the home page. I had put it into the new format and gotten some of my ramblings off of the page a couple of weeks ago. Now I have gone through the rest of the site and brought it up to the current spec.

I removed more ramblings from the front page and inserted a news feed from Pro Sound Web with industry news. I also found five other news feeds related to the industry and built the industry news area. I redid the nav top, bottom, and left column. I added the RSS feed meta tag so that the smarter browsers will display the RSS icon in the address bar. I added a links page and a site news page.

I will upload it this evening and test to see if I can find the things that I broke while fixing the site. I need more eyes for the testing, so stop on over and see if you can find something that does not work as expected.  Just leave a note in the Message Center or come back here and post a comment. Thanks!