Bloodshot Dawn

Bloodshot Dawn was a music blog that ran in 2005-2006. The purpose of the site was to highlight good quality music, that may have missed the public’s radar.

The site ran on its own CMS created by me, powered by PHP and MySQL. I also created this site as a means to test and increase my PHP skills and I did that to the fullest.

Features

• use of mod_rewrite for people friendly as well as search engine friendly URLs.
• search engine
• spam proof commenting forms
• cookies to remember commenter’s details
• forms to email friends when you find a cool album
• simple text to XHTML conversion in commenting forms and in the admin area.
• a help guide that answers any questions about site usage
• help guides in the admin area for ease of use
• CSS layout - no tables for layout
• near-validation of XHTML 1.0 strict

Printed materials

In a bid to make this blog popular, I set about creating some posters for putting up at gigs and t-shirts for wearing at gigs. The printed materials took the online brand and tried to extend it to offline.