The Evolution of a Website
May 8th, 2008In the wake of our new site, I thought it might be interesting to see how prospectmali.com has evolved over the years. Basically there have now been 4 iterations of the site. Let’s start from way back when in 2006.
Here she is, version 1 in all her glory. Do you like the ginormous font that says Prospect Mali News? That way you can tell its the news page.
Also, you can see in the lower right corner an ad for bass player wanted. That never really worked out for us. We did have a few applicants, including a guy living in Ohio and one living in Wisconsin. It was hard to get together for practice.
On to version 2.
You can see the original album art we had for our debut album here. The rest of the site was based off of that, which is why the website needed to go under a mini-makeover in version 3. My favorite part of the website was the store link, since we didn’t have a store nor anything to sell at the time. Smooth.
And finally version 3. Ah yes, the website of the CD launch. Its basically the same as version 2 but with the album artwork integrated. The idea was okay (at least I thought), but the execution was, well, a tad off.
Things didn’t work right or look quite right at times. Mostly, because I didn’t (and still) don’t know how the heck to code a website. I try to be such a nerd, but all the true nerds of the world would have been so disappointed in me.
And now, we’ve arrived at version 4. I really hope this thing works as it should, because it seems we finally got it right. Any suggestions for version 5?
