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Incognita Design: The new Official Tommy Rando Website

Screenshot of Official Tommy Rando Website - design by incognita

Screenshot of Official Tommy Rando Website - design by incognita

Australian musician Tommy Rando came to Incognita to initially design his EP launch site in 2010. In May this year, he was ready to create his official site and again turned to Incognita as a designer. And we were delighted to work with Tommy again – not just because of his excellent taste in web designers ;) but also because we just love his music – which is a good thing as it was on constant repeat play while this site was being created (and we’re still running it through the office iTunes player – and still loving it!).

Tommy wanted a site that was clean, easy to access, providing information for fans, media and other interested parties. An important element was a music player that would play his latest EP “Signature” automatically once the site loaded – and then keep playing, uninterrupted, while the visitor clicked through each page. Normally with html programming, this is a challenge, but Incognita incorporated a Flash player that “remembered” where each track was from page to page – which then continuously played with only a slight pause between each page click – meaning the music was uninterrupted until the visitor clicked the stop button on the player themselves.

Social media also played an important part – the “Updates” page incorporates Tommy’s Twitter feed as the primary information source and links to all his social media profiles appear in the menu of each page. Using Tommy’s latest promo shot as inspiration for colours for the site – we ended up with a website that fulfilled the brief and showcases Tommy and his music via a professional, slick and informative web presence – that we had a ball designing!

“Thank you for your energy and efforts, Sal – you are wonderful.” – Tommy Rando

You can see the Official Tommy Rando Site (and hear his music for yourself) HERE.

Incognita Design revisits AlanFletcher.net

Screenshot of AlanFletcher.net - design by incognita

Screenshot of AlanFletcher.net - design by incognita

Alan Fletcher (best known as “Dr Karl Kennedy” on Australian TV seriesĀ Neighbours, who has an acting CV longer than your arm in Australian, UK and US TV, film and theatre – and is an AFI Award nominee to boot!) has been a client of Incognita’s since 2001 and during that time his sites have gone through a number of changes and upgrades, as sites will do. So it was with great delight that Incognita took the brief from Alan that it was time to overhaul the entire site structure and look to make it more modern in tone, but simpler in use. This, of course, meant a lot more back-end programming to achieve this end – to help make things more automatic for visitors, as well as interactive, but it was a much needed reworking of the site and both Alan and Incognita were very pleased with the results.

Included in the update was the AlanFletcher.net Fanzone – a seperate site on the AlanFletcher.net domain, which is the primary information hub for fans, media and other interested parties. More videos and audio files were added, a gallery where fans can upload their favourite photos as well as view others already on the system, a fan forum, press articles, official photo galleries, voice tones for download, music tracks for download, e-newsletter sign up and a whole lot more were added and added to over the redesign phase, ending up with a site that is colourful and bright, as well as informative and – most of all – fun!

“Brilliant work Sal. Test drove everything and it all works beautifully and looks fantastic! I am loving your work! “- Alan Fletcher

Visit the Official website of Alan Fletcher HERE.