So that's why

[fat cherry]

though, not to be too down on it all, its still a good site (award winning and all, as you say) compared to the previous version, just - could be a tad better.

[Frank The Bunny]

but then there's the schoolboy error of multimedia rich content bollocks web design of having to manually disable the advert yourself should you want to watch one of the rich content multimedia videos, otherwise you have 'echo and the bunnymen - live blah blah, tickets on sale nadgers - playing all over the cutter. Not being funny but you shouldn't have to do that manually.

I was trying to be funny when I suggested my fellow Mr. Smith mute his speakers.

I've also seen some sites put up a splash screen before entering a site - you click on either "play audio" or "mute"

[fat cherry]

I know, I saw the winky face thing. even so, er, thats it. Nick Cave's gone a bit retro by having one long home page with tons of images to click on. some of his sketches are a bit schoolboyish (and probably not suitable for work either):

http://www.nickcaveandthebadseeds.com/s ... wings-2007

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

95? I don't have a single animated gif sir!

True, let's make it 2000 then. I think we are still in with HTML, but animated gifs are a thing of past. I like the design of this site, it's really easy to use. That reminds me, a few years back I was walking towards....

[Dave Smith]

I was trying to be funny when I suggested my fellow Mr. Smith mute his speakers.

I've also seen some sites put up a splash screen before entering a site - you click on either "play audio" or "mute"

Frank-I do!Shouldnt have to though.where's the clsoe button?I know nothing about web design ,but by christ do my sleeping kids know that "Echo and the Bunnymen....masterclass in Rock'n'Roll' is playing when I go to the computer late at night.

[MacAttack]

This is my first post and probably my last. Mr. Bunny, That was the most boring thing I ever read. Goodbye.

Shock of shocks - I agree with Peter (or whomever wrote that post, which was surprisingly light on spelling and punctuation errors)

Bunnymen camp is all about Apple products -

Will's a MacBook and a Mac workstaton
Nick the Hat (sound engineer and talented web designer) - Mac guy
Peter - Mac
The site runs on a Mac server.

When I was designing the site, Will would send me screenshots of how crappy it looked on his Mac, and I'd have to clean up/rework my code. Granted, I used a lot of html frames, etc in my design (and I designed on a Windows machine)

I loved doing flash intros because I knew they'd look the same across all platforms. But flash can do a lot more now than it could then - consequently, flash has a lot of security vulnerabilities - malicious code can be written into it at the command level that would allow for all sorts of nasty things to be installed on your machine.

Flash is also a resource hog (probably the more-likely reason Steve Jobs won't have it on iPhone or iPad)

Remember at last year's SXSW when the big news was that all the iPhones almost crashed AT&T's network in Austin? iPhones and iPads can't be ignored - iPhone already owns the mobile web-browsing world (yes, I know Android's coming up).

And here's what Bunnymen.com looks like on iPhones/iPads:


Not a great experience.
Steve Jobs talked a lot about html 5 at the iPad launch and the announcement of iPhone OS 4. In theory, html 5 would bypass the need for plug-ins like Flash, Silverlight & Java in providing a rich browsing experience.

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[withahip]

This is my first post and probably my last. Mr. Bunny, That was the most boring thing I ever read. Goodbye.

Oh slam down! GOOD DAY SIR!

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[black francis]

Goddamnit Frank. I was just warming up to this MacAttack fella and you go and fuck things up.

[Mr. Brian]

Why does Frank have to be like that?

[withahip]

Do have the stats on how many people have been lost due to Frank's, aka Mr. Bunny's, boring posts? This site is suffering.

[black francis]

Mr. Brian please delete Frank's account.

[withahip]

BF, we need you on reconnaissance. Go out and find Macattack - but you'll have to go out on tantan!

[Mr. Brian]

Do have the stats on how many people have been lost due to Frank's, aka Mr. Bunny's, boring posts? This site is suffering.

Just this one but goddammit that's one too many of our boys and things are going to change around here!

[black francis]

That's Tauntaun

[withahip]

That's Tauntaun

Good God man! We don't have time for spelling and grammar corrections! Macattack could die by the time he/she reaches the first marker!