Hello and welcome!

Hello and welcome to the Manea Silver Band blog, which will form one of the sections of our forthcoming new MSB website.

The intention is that this blog will be written primarily by our musical director, Clare Hall, and will talk about the band, forthcoming events, rehearsals and the music we are performing. There may also be occasional snippets from players in the band. We welcome comments, as long as they're not rude!

I'm Robert, 1st horn player in the band. I have recently been redesigning our website in time for our April relaunch concert:

  

Current homepage                    New design homepage

The new site uses the webstandard CSS formatting, plus a few bits of Javascript thrown in for good measure. I have been trying to go for a clean, simple, easy-to-navigate look, although I'm not entirely happy with some elements at the moment; I do welcome suggestions, as webpage design is not exactly my speciality.

What's not entirely obvious on this screenshot is that each of the big buttons links to a separate page. The colour of each button highlights when the mouse hovers over them. In the separate pages, the buttons appear in a smaller format along the base of the page and the 'river line' takes you back to the top of the page.

The website is nearly ready for posting, but just requires a few more tweaks (and some more content) before it is ready to go live. Watch this space!