a'tris

Hey everyone! The new a'tris HQ is up and it actually works! Woot!

So, what are you waiting for? Copy and paste http://www.atrishq.com into your browser or click the banner below and let me know what you think!

I'm really stoked about how everything turned out. It took a little bit of doing but I was finally able to get iWeb to work for me. The site is still lacking in terms of a few features but I discovered a couple of apps like the fantastic iWeb Valet that helped me to really get this job done. For someone who never took a web design class I'm pretty proud of what I was able to accomplish here! Thanks to everyone who reached out to me with tips and advice. I really appreciate your help!

Speaking of help please drop me a line if you find that something's not working for your browser. As you may have noticed from my last post, all of this stuff is pretty foreign to me but I will do my best to figure out how to fix any problem you might encounter. I've posted a list below of the bugs I'm currently aware of. I'm also working on making each page's new content appear in a window within the main template so the background and icons don't have to load each time. Any thoughts on how to make that happen with a little html action?

I'm really trying to make a'tris HQ a site you'll want to add to your bookmarks. It has some pretty nifty Twitter integration and RSS action going on - if I don't say so myself - so expect new content on a daily basis! Most of my tweets are about stuff the guys and I are doing and artists whose music we're really digging so, if you're looking to get some insight into what it's like to live in a'tris land be sure to follow us -

http://twitter.com/atris

Hope this finds you feeling healthy!

-Mason

Known a'tris HQ Bugs:

• Humorously enough, many browsers seem to be displaying a warning screen stating that the link I've posted to our music on Microsoft's Zune store is untrusted and may harm your computer. All I have to say is that's Microsoft for you.

• Firefox displays a Purple line across the top of our Tweet badge. I'm not quite sure what's up with that but I'll pretend that I intended for it to happen.

• Safari V4 Public beta doesn't display the ReverbNation plugin I'm using to stream our music and videos in the media section. That's not my fault :) I'm open to your thoughts/sugestions if you feel that you know of a better solution.

• No browsers show the scroll bar for the RSS stream I created to display our tour pictures. I have no idea why that is because they all seem to display the scroll bar for the blog on our homepage and that uses the exact same code. Does anyone know why it's working in one place and not the other?

• The a'tris favicon doesn't show in Safari. Maybe this is a .ico thing? I'd never seen/heard of this file type before but apparently it is the Windows equivalent of an icns or rsrc. *update - to get around this I've formatted the photos section so that you will be able to view our four most recent galleries. It's not quite as sexy and the thumbnails aren't as big this way but you'll still be able to easily access tons of new pictures when we're back out on the road! Follow us on Twitter and I'll let you know when they post!

• The site doesn't work for Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac. I'm not sure why that is either but who the hell uses Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac?