Paper Crows Tumblr-Powered website
papercrows.com
Pete Tong signed Paper Crows to his FFRR label and I’ve been helping out with the band’s online estate.
As the band are starting out, they wanted a fairly simple website so we decided to build the site on a Tumblr blog.
I set about building a custom tumblr theme to make the site more than a basic blog feed. The navigation works in conjunction with Tumblr’s static pages feature. I added static pages for music, videos, contact details and the mailing list. The music page is a collection of Soundcloud players while the Videos page is a bunch of embedded YouTube videos.
I configured the sidebar to contain a mailinglist sign-up module. The form uses jquery and ajax to validate and submit the users details seamlessly.
The sidebar also includes a Facebook like box, with customised css to improve the styling and integration with the site.
Paper Crows use the BandsInTown app to power their tour dates on Facebook and Myspace. I included the Javascript widget to include a tour dates page and sidebar widget.
Cufon made it easier to style the headings and navigation, adding a bit more style to the page’s design.
All posts include AddThis sharing with custom buttons. I also included Omniture tagging to track website traffic.
Finally I switched the A record for papercrows.com to make the tumblr blog the band’s official website at papercrows.com.