Music Charts Site

[mikeybeez]

who doesn't love music

http://www.top40charts.net

i wanted to make a an appealing looking, and easy to navigate music charts site with all the top40's for last 50 odd years, and link each song to youtube.....

it has a drop down menu with transparency showing the SHOWTIME module images in the header

custom template, modules used

- showtime
- RSS2HTML

this CMS is super !

cheers
mikey

[pixelita]

Very nice. I bet it took a TON of research and sweat to get those YT links matched up with the chart songs. What an amazing collection.

Nice work with the Play module too. I've been wanting to try that out.

[mikeybeez]

thanks for the compliments pixelita

those YT links gave me a headache and rsi for a few days, all up some 18 hours of manually linking each song. there may have been a smarter way to do it, but i didnt know

[paulbaker]

I think I am missing something. Can't see the youtube links "manually linking". Aren't they search strings?

e.g. on http://www.top40charts.net/index.php?pa ... sic-charts
you have a link to http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... nd%20Ivory
youtube then finds suitable matches. So where is the "manually linking each song"?

That said, it's a great design and a really original idea - I like it.

[mikeybeez]

hiya

thakks for the comments

i manually typed in each artist & song name to go with the YT search string, which does find all matches , not just one song version - i should have made that bit clearer

at least this way, if any videos get removed (youtube is reknown for that now) it will never affect my links

[paulbaker]

Understood, yes YT do tend to remove music videos so I guess having a search string was the best direction to go. Otherwise you'd be forever fixing broken links.

Cheers

[skatman3489]

I just wanted to say that I not only liked what you did with the site, but I also bookmarked it. It's really cool to have a site that contains links to all the top 40's. Awesome Job!

[mikeybeez]

thanks for the kind words skatman, labour of love that one