As promised, here is the music site my brother and I have been working for a while. Introducing PARCE MUSIK, a site dedicated to music news, music videos, interviews and more!
Users can submit content such as story links, embedded video and personal blogs and vote on the stories they deem worthy or appearing on the frontpage. To help with keeping content relative for the user we have a filter system which allows for users to select the music genres they like. Once they choose their favorite genres, the content throughout the site filters out the unwanted content, effectively keeping content relevant and for longer periods of time, which mean less chances users will miss what matters to them.
This site was created and maintain by my brother and me in our spare time and we will introduce some great features real soon, such as custom artist profile pages and custom fan profile pages. In the mean time, we welcome everyone to check it out at www.parcemusik.com and sign up and submit content. It is extremely easy to post content! If you hear about a music story elsewhere, simply go to Submit > Submit Link. Enter a catchy title, give us a short description so we know what is it about, enter the link and hit submit. That’s it. Now other users have the opportunity to check out the story in the Blog Stream and vote on it. Once the story reaches a certain amount of votes, it will be promoted to the frontpage.
There are a lot of great features we are currently working on which help artists and be enjoyable for everyone. We have a long road ahead of us, and we work on the site on our spare time but it’s a lot of fun. We have an advertisement system in place so we can sell ads in the future and hopefully cover hosting and other expenses that are currently coming out of our pockets. =P
Ok, that’s all for now. Check out the site www.parcemusik.com try it out and spread the word.
For the past year I have secluded to myself on most of my spare time to work on a project that wanted to do for years. Most of you know how much I love music; it’s a passion and obsession that doesn’t seem to fade away. About a year ago the idea of making a better metal news site started to swirl in my head and told the idea to my brother; another metal head and programmer. He liked the ideas, and had some great ideas of his own, and we began to work on making it happen.
The main concepts of the site revolved around fixing a major problem on music sites in general and adding a very important factor of today’s web experience.
The problem? all music sites are flooded with content that for the most part, at any particular point, the user considers garbage. Why? because there are hundreds of genres and most likely a user only really cares about a handful. This is particularly true in metal music. There are dozens and dozens of genres but users only like a few and furthermore, they cannot tolerate some of the other bands. So our approach is to allow users to choose the genres they like and filter out the rest; increasing the chances the user will get more relevant content.
The second concept is that of allowing users to contribute content that they deem relevant by submitting link to news stories, blogs and embedded videos. This content can then be voted it on by other users and after certain amount of votes it can reach the frontpage where other popular stories reside. Voting system was made popular by sites like Digg.com and soon after by Reddit and allow for a deeper level of interactivity from the user. In the case of music, it goes hand in hand with the devotion music fans often show for their favorite artists by talking about them, spreading the buzz.
Ok, enough for now. more info coming real soon.
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Recently, I came across an little issue while developing one of my Drupal sites and that is: there really isn't a nice way to tell Drupal when a dynamic link should open in the same window if it is internal or a new window otherwise.
In our own posts we can do this manually, but there are many ways Drupal generates links which to correct would mean modifying the core system.
That's a big NO-NO! We do not touch the core system under any circumstances as this creates a lot of headaches in future updates. Almost to the same degree can be said about the free modules we are using which generate links. It just becomes hard to keep track of all these custom changes.
So to solve this problem, I wrote a little plugin that determines on its own if the link is internal or external and modifies accordingly so we don't have to worry.Using the script is as easy as loading the plugin and adding the following lines to your html page:
JAVASCRIPT:
$(document).ready(function() {
$.fn.fixLinkTargets();
});
That's all! I will add even more functionality in the future but for now it definitely helps a good deal.
Feel free to use in personal and commercial projects!
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