40 Beautiful Websites from the Music Industry

April 18th, 2009 | 9 Comments | Posted in Various

Here is a list of 40 beautiful music related websites. I found that these sites expressed the creativity of music in their web design. The sites range from music providers to the websites of popular musicians. Some of the sites are simple but tasteful, others are bright and experimental. I hope you find these sites inspirational, let us know your favorites in the comments.

Last.fm

Djrush.net

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1,000 Business Card Giveaway Winner

April 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Various

Thank you to everyone that participated in our 1,000 Business Giveaway Contest. We exceeded our goal of reaching 300 followers and now have almost 600. As promised, if you did not win, if you participated in the contest we have a special link set up for you to receive 1,000 business cards at a discounted price. If you never received your link, just send us a message on Twitter and we will send it to you again. Thanks again to everyone that participated, and now to get to the winner…

The winner of our contest is: Shawn Kirsch

Twitter ID:thattalldude

Prize: 1,000 free business cards provided by allbusinesscards.com

Congrats Shawn and to everyone that did not win, we will be hosting another contest with an even bigger prize next month.

Web Design Blog Follow Me Icons

April 8th, 2009 | 4 Comments | Posted in Various

Twitter is rising to become the king of social media. Twitter has the power to drive huge amounts of traffic and is an easy way for people to receive site updates. Certain users, such as Mashable, are racking up huge Twitter followings, with there tweets going out to hundreds of thousands of people. This got me interested in how sites were creating such large followings. I came to the conclusion that the top three factors (aside from traffic) that influence a sites Twitter following is the creativity of their Twitter “follow me” image, its size, and how active they are on Twitter. To test my hypothesis, I am conducting the Twitter Experiment.  For this experiment, I am going to take 7 sites and rank their method of capturing followers on a scale from 1 to 10 based on three categories. The categories will be updates, creativity and size. I am then going to use trafficestimate.com to get an estimate to use for each sites traffic. I will then divide each sites 30 day traffic estimate by their number of Twitter followers to get what I call the Twitter Traffic ratio. The lower the ratio, the more effective the site is at attracting followers per visitor. After I am finished with my rankings, I will see how well my predictions compare to the real results.

My  Rankings

1.

Smashing Magazine

Followers: 25,132

Updates: 10

Creativity: 9

Size:6

Total Score: 25

Traffic Estimate : 4,608,300 in the last 30 days

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