New Website Samples

They say there is no happiness in show business—only relief.

Well, I am relieved we have crossed $32K on our Kickstarter, in large part because I’ve already had a web company building the new FSM site. (Meaning if we failed to reach our goal, I’d be clawing out of this debt for years.)

These are not the final images, or designs, or anywhere close to them! But take a look:

People are, of course, welcome to offer their thoughts and criticisms—but keep in mind, I haven’t even weighed in as to the presentation myself.

Phase one is simply to get the existing site converted to a new, modern programming language—the old site runs on ColdFusion, which is obsolete (and why it conks out eight times a day).

Because the programmers have to start somewhere, they’re just trying to get the old site converted as simply as possible to a new platform. Then phase two is to see what we can do to add more features and enhance the look and feel, usability, etc.

So if the font is too small or you don’t like the colors—that’s the easy stuff to fix!

What I really want is an archive of our 35 years of content where you can find what you want without having to try to remember what issue it’s in, or who wrote it, or exactly what the headline was, etc.

And that’s why I want to get to $50K in our Kickstarter—because this stuff isn’t cheap. It’s very easy to spend a lot of money and still not get to the finish line. (Maybe not the best time to mention that, given what we’ve been discussing this week?)

I want to take a moment to thank my friends at the soundtrack boutique labels and stores who have kindly used their mailing lists to help promote our Kickstarter. We’re a small community of film score outfits and we’re happy to help each other—but we all know there’s only so much money our customers have to spend. So I truly appreciate this help.

I’m also proud of the “community service” FSM has provided for a long time—and want to continue for decades to come.

And of course I want to thank everybody who has contributed. I see some names going back to FSM’s subscriber rolls in the 1990s. The only reason I’m still here doing this is because of you.

Thank you!