Benny Banks Countdown Holding Page
To hype up the anticipation for the release of the ‘Bada Bing’ video I built a holding page counting down to the second the video would go live.
I used Keith Wood’s jQuery Countdown plugin to render a timer. The script was very easy to use and the additional settings made it easy to style and configure. The timezone setting allowed me to specify that the countdown should end at 11am UK time rather than the visitor’s timezone.
By using @font-face, I was able to render all links and even the numbers in the timer with the same fonts used on the single artwork.
The video premiered on a ‘like to view’ Facebook tab. So at 11am on Fri 13th Jan the countdown was switched with a message and link to watch the video on Benny Banks’ Facebook page. After the premier finished I embedded the video directly into the holding page.
