Archive for the ‘Website’ Category

June updates

Friday, June 17th, 2011

A quick round up of updates to abcnotation.com since last time:

(more…)

April updates

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

A quick round up of the changes to the site since the last update in February:

(more…)

What next?

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

What would you like to see next on abcnotation.com?

Here are some of the possibilities:

  • A tune player with speed controls – so you can listen to the midi files slowed down or speeded up
  • A tune upload facility – so you can create your own pages and even, optionally, add tunes to the tune search
  • Links to amazon.com – so you can search for recorded versions of tunes
  • A smart-phone app that connects to the tune search – so you can access it anywhere
  • Allow comments on tune pages – so you can add notes & comments
  • Melody search – so you can find tunes by searching for a sequence of notes

Vote now, or add a comment below to make more suggestions.

Wishlist (select up to 3)

View Results

Loading ... Loading ...

Stop thief

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

I’ve recently been playing around with some code to prevent hotlinking of the images on the site.

Hotlinking is when a page in one website displays an image served from another website.

(more…)

February updates

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

Just a quick round up of some of the changes to the site that I’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks:

(more…)

A year of massive growth

Friday, December 31st, 2010

… at least, in terms of the number tunes available in the tune search.

Aside from the attention grabbing headline, it’s customary at this time of the year to take a look back at what developments have happened over the year, so I thought I might as well join in. Here are a few of the 2010 highlights for abcnotation.com:

(more…)

Twice as big

Sunday, December 12th, 2010

I’ve just released a new edition of the tune search and I’m pleased to announce that it’s massively increased in size now with over 275,000 tunes indexed and available for searching!

(more…)

Normal service has now been resumed

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

Those of you who follow this blog or keep up to date via facebook may have noticed a resounding silence from these parts over the past couple of months.

(more…)

Advertising

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

The abc website has carried Google “adsense” adverts for a while now – they help to pay for the web hosting, amongst other things. However, they are not always very relevant to the site.

(more…)

Copyright first

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

When I originally set up the tune search I planned not to display copyright tunes.

(more…)