The first week of launch has been a total success!

Each day I have had an average of 1000 - 1300 unique visitors. I’m not sure how this compares to everyone else’s traffic, but I’ll take it! Hopefully everyone continues to stop by to check out the daily updates. I’ve also been flooded with super positive emails and have made a ton of new buds. The majority of emails consist of questions regarding how the site was made site and what elements were customized in Wordpress. So with that being said, I decided to make a list of plugins/resources that I used during the process. I’ve also added a list of all the CSS award, gallery and community sites that have directed a lot of traffic to my site. I thought this would be helpful as well.

Plugins/Resources

www.5thirtyone.com/grid-focus
This was the original Wordpress template I used.

www.wordpressmax.com/customize-wordpress/custom-page
The basic PHP code/tutorial on how to make a custom Wordpress page.

www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload
The javascript load animation effect for each image. It looks really great in Firefox for mac.

www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/lightview/
I used this for the images in the about section. Nick is the man!

www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/
Badass audio player that you can customize with the WYSIWYG editor in Wordpress. Zero code.

www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi
The best pagination plugin I could find.

www.akismet.com/
Spam plugin. A must have.

www.google.com/analytics
Keep an eye on your stats after all your hard work.

www.haveamint.com
Analytics in real time. iphone app available too! Thanks for the hook up on the one Garrett!

www.hab.la/habla
In the process of adding this. Looks super fun!

CSS/Industry Sites

www.thefwa.com
If you have won an FWA award, submit to the news section. Rob Ford is a crazy nice guy and the odds are he’ll help ya out.
www.cssmania.com
Apparently this is a super popular site. Gabriel Segura runs the show there and seems like a really nice dude. I was shocked to see the analytics traffic.
www.xhilarate.com
www.faveup.com
www.bestwebgallery.com/
www.qbn.com
www.main.68design.net/cool/
Ok this one is Japanese, but if you can get on here get ready for some hitage.
www.mostinspired.com/
www.csselite.com/
www.cssloggia.com/
www.cssbeauty.com/
www.designsnack.com/
www.e-creative.net
www.newwebpick.com

Ok so that should get you started! Good luck and let me know if there’s any other worthy CSS sites out there to submit to.

The three songs posted here are from a few years past and are extremely hard to find. All three of these artists were on the label Observatory Online years ago. I just recently dug around to see what the label was up to but, it looks like they haven’t updated in about 2 years. I assume they’re done. It’s a shame because they had some great artists. If anyone knows what the deal is with that please let me know.

Tree Wave is still around and will be releasing something new soon as well as playin at SXSW for the Graveface records show. Experimental Aircraft is on that label as well, how cool would it be to see Tree Wave and them play!

As far as for Kris et Julie, I haven’t been able to pull up any information at all on the web. It’s bummer because it’s such an amazing tune. Text Adventure is another artist I’d hope to hear more from but, was left with old material. The track posted is a great little synth-pop tune that picks up speed at the end.

Enjoy!

Kris et Julie - Dan

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Tree Wave - Sleep

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Text Adventure - Kill Meow

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