A Musical Life Contest
“A Musical Life” is a new podcast show sharing stories about making music and the things that move our souls, and we’re running a special contest to celebrate its launch! Visit http://amusicallife.com/contest to enter for a free chance to win this week’s special prize: Aaron Rosand’s complete recordings of all the works for Violin and Piano by Brahms. Plus, every contestant will automatically receive a free MP3 recording of “Clair de lune” performed by Hugh Sung. But hurry - contest ends Saturday!
Well, it’s about time!
My last website design lasted for nearly 6 years. Back in 2014, responsive websites were the hot issue - with the rise of mobile screens and tablets predicted to overshadow desktop and laptop computer browsers, Google was putting a heavy emphasis on websites that could adapt their designs to accommodate smaller screens legibly. To that end, and with a desire to try to maintain a unique “artsy” design, I created a landing page based off of a brand new publicity photo shot by the brand new online school I had just joined, ArtistWorks. I sliced the image into blocks so that all of the text could be shuffled accordingly on smaller screens as clickable links. At the time, I thought it looked pretty cool, and it highlighted the main areas of my life as a pianist, author of a book on digital sheet music, passion for technology, my online popular piano school at ArtistWorks, and my podcast show, A Musical Life. Needless to say, it was a pretty big improvement from my previous website design, which had been around for probably close to 10 years: