www.plush.us

While I’m building the new official Plush website the band wanted an updated holding page to promote the new single ‘Dancing in a Storm’.

I assembled a fairly basic page to include the new logo (designed by Pierre Coetzee) and a photograph by Deborah Rossouw.

The page includes a sign-up form linked to phplist as well as social network links and a Facebook like button. I embedded the new single ‘Dancing in a Storm’ using a soundcloud player and customised the meta data to optimize Facebook sharing. Pressing the like button will share the page on your wall along with the embedded soundcloud player, so the song will reach the maximum number of people possible.

I was also asked to include the upcoming tour dates, but I didn’t want to be stuck with the job of constantly updating a static list of dates. I added the bands in town Facebook application and used their simple javascript package to make sure the latest tour dates stay synced between the holding page, Facebook and Myspace pages.

The holding page effectively showcases the new Plush single and tour dates, while encouraging sign-ups and social sharing.