All The Young Holding Page Update
The release of All The Young’s new Live EP meant that the band’s holding page needed to be updated. A full website is still in development so I needed to communicate the new release details without building an entirely new website.
I used the existing holding page layout, replacing the full screen videos with a basic flyer for the new album. The flyer links to the UKUndercurrent store where fans can purchase a limited run of 100 signed albums.
As we’ve just launched a free download widget for the band I included this on the holding page with a bit of JQuery animation. Clicking the link will reveal the widget by elegantly sliding a lightbox out over the album packshot. The widget includes a fallback option to display a simplified html form to users that don’t have Flash. The JQuery slider also has a fallback option for users without JavaScript enabled, instead of seeing the animated unveiling of the widget, they are directed to a bare-bones page containing the widget in flash or html.
The holding page also includes links to the band’s two music videos. These play within the holding page layouts I built for the videos previously.
The tour dates are still imported from the BandsInTown app, synced with Facebook and Myspace.
Every page also includes an email sign-up form inside the drop-down menu. The form data is seamlessly submitted in the background using JQuery.
With all the modifications I’ve made over the weeks, what was intended as a very basic holding page has grown into a fairly impressive website while the full site is still in development.
