Topic: Website
If you visit the Canadian Tabs page of the site today, you'll notice a new look for that page. I thought it would be a good idea to start tightening things up a bit. The idea is to make the site more efficient, so the page has been adjusted to require a lot less scrolling, and to allow for more content visible on the screen at a time. When I first designed these pages, I didn't know much about coding (not that I know all that much now), so everything went down the middle of the page. But it doesn't have to be that way anymore. The page is still set up alphabetically by band name and artist surname, but now it's arranged into three columns.
The Canadian page was the first to get a make-over because it's the most visited page on the site, but all of the tab/chord pages will be changed to this more condensed format. I hope the new look appeals, and that you find the pages quicker and easier to navigate.
Also, a week or so ago, I added a page for Christmas/seasonal tabs, with a link to it from the Home page. The Christmas tabs (all 3 of them
) are all posted on their appropriate various pages on the main site, but it seemed like a good idea to also gather them together in one spot. That makes it easier for anyone who might come by looking for Christmas tabs; they won't have to search the whole site to see if there are any. That's a temporary page for December; the link to it will be removed after Christmas.I think that covers all the site updates for now. If you notice any problems with the new formatting (broken links, anything), give me a shout. And, as always, thanks for visiting the site.
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Updated: Friday, December 11, 2009 5:15 PM EST
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Updated: Friday, December 11, 2009 5:15 PM EST
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The Pretenders' Christmas-themed song "2000 Miles" was released as a single in 1983, in advance of Learning To Crawl (1984), the album on which it appeared. The single had its best success in the UK, where it charted at #15. Upon its release, the album went gold and platinum in the UK and the US respectively, peaking at #4 on Canada's album chart.
"Strange Magic" was the second single (after "Evil Woman") released from ELO's 1975 album Face The Music. The album went platinum in the band's native UK (gold in the US), launching a string of internationally successful multi-platinum albums for the Birmingham septet. Tabbed here is the Intro, a nice harmonized guitar part, ending on a cool little descending chromatic run.
Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Swamp Music" appeared on the band's second album Second Helping (1974, pictured). This double-platiunum selling album is most noted for featuring the band's biggest hit, "Sweet Home Alabama". The album peaked at #12 on Billboard. "Swamp Music" has also been featured on many Skynyrd compilation/greatest hits albums, such as Skynyrd's Innyrds (1989), What's Your Name (1997), and The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd (1998).
The title song of Blue Rodeo's 1992 album Lost Together was also the album's most successful single. Both single and album peaked at #3 on the Canadian charts, with the album achieving double-platinum status. It also marked the first time the band chose to produce itself.
). For that setting, I'd opt for upbeat or harder rocking songs.
