https://www.myspace.com/muse

The label-wide upgrade of Myspace pages I need to coordinate is quite intimidating when it comes to bands like Muse. Fortunately the job didn’t have too much room for error.

As usual, I worked with Kate Brighouse’s design insights to recreate the old layout within the new myspace limitations.

A lot of standard formatting code gets striped out by myspace, so there was a lot of painfully slow tweaking and testing involved to make things line up.

I was also asked to make the twitter feed look better. I built a custom flash widget to display tweets. I also had to work around twitter’s api call limit – Muse would obviously have a lot of visitors executing the script. So I wrote a php script that checks when an api call was last made and refreshes the feed if enough time has passed. If not, the widget uses a cached version of the feed instead.

I have started making share buttons a standard on our embedded videos or content. So all the videos have custom share buttons that will post the YouTube video to Facebook or Twitter.