D2T Studio Web Design & Development Blog » Uncategorized http://blog.d2tstudio.com Web Design & Development News from D2T Studio Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:34:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Last.fm – The end of an era http://blog.d2tstudio.com/uncategorized/2009/lastfm-the-end-of-an-era/ http://blog.d2tstudio.com/uncategorized/2009/lastfm-the-end-of-an-era/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 10:04:16 +0000 admin http://www.d2tstudio.com/blog/?p=49 Well the title is a bit harsh, but it seems last.fm has opted for the subscription model.  No more free radio paid for by web banners, obviously that wasn’t enough.  So now it’s either Spotify and their in-audio ads, or coughing up 3$ for Last.fm.

I like last.fm but it seems that everytime I play the same Tag radio, there are always the same songs on.

My 30 tracks freebie is already wearing thin, so, looks like I’ll have to dig out Spotify and let advertisers pay for the airtime.  Otherwise back to Radio One and all their wizzles, chats and ads that come with it…

UPDATE:  Grooveshark is now officially the music app of the moment.  Although I do need to check out Soundcloud, Pandora and a bunch of other music sites – Stereomood was another cool one…  actually might do a review of the main music sites at the moment and do another post.

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It’s sad sight for a web-designer, and probably a pride-swallowing moment for the Editor of Financial Times website FT.com, when they are forced to quickly patch up their website to the standard of the new Guardian website.

The Guardian website, from the point of view of a web designer, is immaculate.  The response from FT.com is rather disappointing.  For one, the influence from the Guardian website is so obvious as to be libelous, and the fact that the rest of the website reverts to the old design betrays its motives.  Further, the design team seems to have opted to imitate the pink-sheet printed version by leaving the background in that odd pink colour, which, in effect, actually makes the page look unfinished.

Although at first glance the makeover seems awkward and unfinished, it still is an improvement over the previous version.  It’s simply a shame they couldn’t be bothered to do the job properly.  There is little more disheartening to a professional web-designer than to see an agency, with plentiful resources, resorting to myopic plagiarism to stay in the game.

Check out guardian.co.uk and ft.com

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