Tin Kicker debut
Sunday, 05 December 2010 14:27
Tin kicker is a site that I recently built for a band. They had a good idea of what they wanted the site to look like. It's dark and image intensive too. The style of the website represents the music they play.
When I first went to see Tom, he had prepared well for the meeting. He showed me a collection of images, a background image and a typeface that he wanted to use. That was a brilliant start. I scribbled down some notes and got to work later that week.
I decided that to patch the elements together and make it look like a scrap book was the best solution. Adding gaffa tape and ticker tape style navigation buttons added to the home-made effect that they were looking to achieve. The biggest challenge was to get all the imagery working; background images layered, nothing was to be straight - it needed to look hand-made.
I presented the design to the band the next week and discussed a few changes. I had put a background behind the typography to make it as legible as possible. Tom wanted the paper effect to be the page and so the backgrounds were removed and the design was signed off.
They wanted a site that they could update them selves. Something that wasn't going to mean that they would have to spend hours coding or cropping images. A music player had to be embedded on the site too.I decided to build the site in Joomla! It was relatively easy to make the templates that I needed and began populating the site with the pages needed. There is a home page with elements to move the viewer around the site to the other areas; the photo gallery, a gig dates page and a music player.
They play dark pop music or to quote from their site "Tin kicker should be the modern Travoltas of New York's dance rock scene, they’ve never been there & they probably never will, but you know what I mean."
They are very pleased with the outcome and I am too. Check out the music if you have time.