movementsixtyone.com is fully functional!
After a marathon session of coding, Photoshopping, and researching, our site movementsixtyone.com is up and running. Is it beer:30 yet?
The whole idea for this started on Thursday night. I went to bed feeling somewhat sick to the stomach about the redesign of thesixtyone.com. I woke up the next morning feeling more anngry after reading additional information about what had happened.
I happened on Chapel’s wiki of ideas for a new T61 clone when something snapped. I felt frustrated that I couldn’t code in Python, Ruby on Rails, or any other programming language. I only know a little bit about a lot of things. But I’ve had enough experience with Web design and writing to be able to pull a project like this off. And thus, from my anger and frustration, this site was born.
The HTML and CSS isn’t clean, but it works in both IE and Opera. I had one favorable report from a Chrome user as well, so I’m assuming that it mostly looks as it should. And I think it looks reasonable for having hurriedly spent a couple of days on it.
I’ve already witnessed a few connections being made on the forum, and that makes me happy. Like I said in the last post, if this site happens to only bring together one fan with one artist, then I’d still be happy. And I am.
Keep up the good fight. If you see an artist from T61 say that they’re setting up shop at a different site, casually ask them if they had posted their artist information here. The more connections we can make here, the better. And don’t forget to e-mail your news, links, songs, and projects for the new library.
See you on the forums.
Yours,
lostraven / Shawn
Everything looks great in firefox as well : D
Thanks for all your hard work!
it’s people like you that make me proud to be a part of the ex-t61 community =)
@xyresic I’m encouraged to hear that Firefox is working well. If I were doing full time Web work, I’d likely have all the major browsers installed for testing purposes. But I’m not. Thanks so much!
@mstk Thanks! We’ve got to stick together if we want to make change. It’s difficult to do it alone.
Shawn, you’re doing a great job! I’m using Chrome with no problems, FYI. Thanks for keeping the family together!
@Gwynn Thanks for the encouragement. It’s important to me that we stick together. I just wish I knew if we were a vocal minority or not. Regardless, it tells me that there’s a large enough group of people to demand a site like the old thesixtyone.com.
The site looks great on Safari for Mac as well
@Roberto Sweet! That’s great to hear! Thanks for posting.