Spotlight Site: Super XX Man

Problem

Super XX Man is an indy/folk band based out of Portland and that has played around the United States and been featured several times on NPR's All Songs Considered. They have 14 Volumes of music that stretch back to when Scott Garred, the lead singer, formed the band in the mid 90's.

When Scott met with me, he had a definite idea of what he wanted to accomplish in his new website. He said, "I want to merge the best of what myspace does in terms of information sharing and combine it with a more personal aesthetic feel... I want it to be a marketing tool complete with email list, high res photos for press, a place to feature You Tube videos, and list news and press clips. Above all, I want my website to be like a juke box for each album I have released..."

Solution

• a flash jukebox that plays all 14 of his albums
• youtube videos
• an event list
• a mailing list
• press clips
• photo gallery
• a blog that doubles as a podcast
• a shopping cart that sells Scott's music
• a private press area to provide information on future releases

The building blocks of his site:

• a Joomla! base
• several open source extensions(photo gallery, event list)
• a Zencart Shopping Cart
• commercial flash jukebox (Wimpy)
• custom Javascript controls for asynchronous control of jukebox
• custom Javascript for DOM manipulation in order to present volume information
• custom Joomla! mailing list component and module

Owner's Comments:

"Blue Bridge Development far exceeded our expectations when they custom designed our new website. They worked within our budget and most importantly delivered what they said they would - a website we can live with for a long time. Blue Bridge offered flexible support while we got up to speed learning how to add content to the solid framework Blue Bridge built for us.

Super XX Man had very specific design needs unlike any other we had seen on the WWW thus far. Blue Bridge met with us, agreed on a price, and stuck to it until the work was finished. We will be working with Blue Bridge again and again."