Miscellany I found the old rubber stamp my father used for his Music House over twenty years ago. It's a little worse for wear but we should be able to use it to design a proper logo. Here's a really bad ASCII version:


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It's a music note in the outline of a house. I don't think we'll be going for the ASCII option, folks.

We were thinking of putting words around the bottom three sides. Also maybe change some other stuff; can we get a CD or a speaker in there somehow? I don't want anything too complicated, because logo recognition is important and keeping it simple will keep our costs down, but it certainly deserves playing around with.

And, oh, colours. Colours are difficult. I mean, we want something that will be easy to read, easy to co-ordinate with... Bright pink is lovely but it's right out. I personally dislike green and orange. Purple is a real difficult thing as far as webpages go. Yellow is too hard to read, brown won't look quite right. Black is good but on a website we should have at least some colour. So we were thinking of CC0066, which is a purply red. I like the colour but I'm not sure how easy it will be to co-ordinate with. We're going to be looking at a colour for the logo and headings, a colour for links, a colour for visited links, possibly a mouseover colour for links (do people still do this?) and perhaps a background colour for menus and the like. I'm not sure there are that many colours that work well with purply red.

I'll need to get some webspace set up for design purposes, probably as soon as we've finished our project proposal. I have a personal, recreational website, but for the moment I don't want that site and this site associated too much. It's difficult to know how much space and bandwidth we'll need, but for now I guess it's probably best to start quite small and scale up when we need to.

S. mentioned to me that one option for printing music would be to offer to print it on coloured paper for dyslexics. I'm not sure this will have a huge market niche, but it works very well with the accessibility requirements for the project.

Things to do, in no particular order:

• Find out whether we can use Your Music House as a company name.
• Scan in the old Music House logo and make a preliminary design. Upload it so there's a profile picture here. Ask a graphic designer or two that I know to comment on said design.
• Research some free webspace and register it (blag it off a geek?)
• Talk to composers and bands about writing music for the site - people I know, and also communities over on EllJay... just get people used to the idea, don't make any specific requests yet
• Write some of my own music for the site
• Talk to A. S. about Specialist Skills Projects
• Write a post explaining just what it is we want to do with the site, since this blog sortof starts mid-assumption

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