Dorks And Losers

DVD­File

My favorite DVD news web­site DVD­File recently unveiled a much needed redesign. The home page now pro­motes its con­tent through nicely placed and sized blocks. The screen­shot doesn’t show it, but that mid­dle block is reserved for the site’s top story. There is a “Lat­est News” block on the left, which is sort of redun­dant since most read­ers prob­a­bly can see what is new on the “Disc News” block or on the “Reviews” block.

The “Disc News” pages get big­ger real estate, but it looks as if the cre­ators have no idea how to use it. The page looks weird with so much space. I’m glad each disc gets its own “row” but there is too much black space under­neath both the pic­tures and the text. I’m not sure how they can fix that.

The “Reviews” pages are much bet­ter han­dled, with the “Disc Spec­i­fi­ca­tions” side­bar mov­ing to left. The color con­trasts work well, with the grey pro­vid­ing a more col­ored back­ground than white for all of the text. I wish the pic­tures could be big­ger and that there could be a bet­ter way to uti­lize the pic­tures instead of sim­ply alter­nat­ing sides, as in the Red­belt review.

The huge 250x250 block ad can be dis­tract­ing, but I gladly click it to sup­port my favorite DVD website.

It’s been many months and count­ing since DVD­File started review­ing hi-def discs, and they still haven’t fixed the rat­ing table. I hope soon there can be one uni­fy­ing table to give bet­ter clar­ity between DVD and Blu-ray discs.

Out­side Lands Music And Arts Festival

San Francisco’s Out­side Lands Music And Arts Fes­ti­val just released its sched­ule. Hope­fully, soon they can release a bet­ter res­o­lu­tion map to go along with the sched­ule so we can bet­ter plan out how we’re going to enjoy the event.

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

I have such high expec­ta­tions for this fes­ti­val. I can’t wait to see Radio­head and Nel­lie McKay. This should be way bet­ter than when I went to Noise Pop, which seemed to be very unor­ga­nized (which prob­a­bly had to do with the logis­ti­cal hard­ships with orga­niz­ing so many bands among many venues).

Hav­ing one cen­tral place will be eas­ier to sam­ple bands as pos­si­ble, as opposed to the hav­ing to travel all across the city. I can’t wait.

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