Utah Saints Homepage

28th of Oct, 2000ce* in: kleber, websites

Another Echo deal with Kleber, I was responsible for another Echo website. Joy! Because this time it was for my personal heros, the Utahsaints!
It was the usual story for Echo, they have a daft old website that hardly works and need a spanking new one, to beat the shit out of an old image.
The Utahsaints had been missing in action for quite some time, until they hooked up with some other people who had been missing for quite sometime, to release a plethora of singles, a tie-in with a Japanese game, and much more besides (these guys go on tour for years, not months).

The sites image was cocktailed by myself, a little less extreme than my original intentions, and directed by a guy called Dorian, who left Kleber some months later to pursue other interests. He set-up Kleber with a guy called Chris, who still owns the company to this day.

Sufficed to say, this website was a hit! Unfortunately, the Utahsaints were not. I’m not sure what they are doing of late - but rest assured they’ll be doing it in style!

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beatles helpgame sprites

2nd of Sep, 2000ce* in: kleber, pixelart, websites

Sprite sheet for the Beatles Helpgame.

It was a long time ago when we produced this game at Kleber, it all came about before “habbos hotel” (to claim second place on multiplayer isometric pixel chat rooms, after the legendary but forgotten Mobiles Disco). Not that it did us any good, myself and the programmer slogged it out for three months to make a game that was never publicised and is virtually unheard of. I did all the graphics and a lot of the game design.

The site has long since been offline, but I have linked a fan site in the archive in this post.

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beatles helpgame backgrounds

1st of Sep, 2000ce* in: kleber, pixelart, websites

It was a long time ago when we produced this game at Kleber, it all came about before “habbos hotel” (to claim second place on multiplayer isometric pixel chat rooms, after the legendary but forgotten Mobiles Disco). Not that it did us any good, myself and the programmer slogged it out for three months to make a game that was never publicised and is virtually unheard of. I did all the graphics and a lot of the game design.

The objective of this game is to navigate the many rooms as one member of the Beatles, then to find your instrument. When all of the 4 Beatles within the game have got their correct instruments (ringo must have the drums etc) then you can proceed to finish the game.

The site has long since been offline, but I have linked a fan site in the archive in this post.

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Undertones

28th of May, 2000ce* in: kleber, websites

A few halfhour interviews, some tiny little meetings, a few cd’s worth of album artwork, I was ready to create a website. It was more of an archive than anything else, with precise information on each and every release… ever, in each country. Basic website precision and the ability to be updated by ‘dreamweaver’, this site was somewhat a walk in the park to create.

But to my shock I later discovered that the Undertones are not rich off thier blinding punk rock carrer. Nope. One of them is dead, some of the others are on welfare, and one recently fixed my step aunties bathroom in London!

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Creation records

28th of Mar, 2000ce* in: kleber, websites

I made 3 microsites for Creation records before they pulled the plug in 2001. Creation was home to bands like Oasis and Super Furry Animals.

Microsites I worked on were: LeTone, Guided By Voices and Kevin Rowland.

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BabyBird (Stephen Jones)

ce* in: kleber, websites

‘you’re gorgeous’
No really, you are.
Babybird’s most famous song, a legacy that he seems be trying to forget. His latest album is called Bugged.
Echo approached Kleber in the past to produce the Moloko site, and favouring us to do a good job they wanted Babybird to have the same treatment.

We devised a PHP system for the site to run on and I took the artwork and ran with it. End result? A website that meets all the fans needs and more; all the sections are colour coded and are pulled together on the front of the site into a timeline, clever stuff. (edit: kinda like what wordpress does now!)

When we replaced the doddering old Babybird site with our new one some people did complain at the forum (people are always gonna complain, let face it) but after a while they got used to it. You can tell a good forum by how busy it is, if people start to complain or praise down the line then you know its been over designed. Well no-one is complaining now!

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Moloko

12th of Mar, 2000ce* in: kleber, websites

With hits from new to old, Moloko are not new on the scene, unfortunately, neither was their doddering old website.
When Echo records came to us to ask for the makeover, we at Kleber were delighted to take on what could only be a good project.

I spent several weeks on the design, which seems like such a long time, but I had it down to work on all browsers *with* lots of added features for newer browsers too, the site was then given the php treatment to make it work well. The site also included some trickery to make it seem to take up all of the browser window whatever size it was set at, not just a fixed width… kind of a trademark technique in Kleber at the time.

The site generated a bit of press and won some sort of award I belive… Although whoever gave it, we didn’t receive it, that was the duty of Moloko (the band) who probably didn’t even know they had a website in the first place. I went on to write a few articles for web magazines about the reward scheme on the site (whereby you collect items scattered around the pages to unlock a secret page which held goodies.

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Koot

28th of Jan, 2000ce* in: kleber, websites

Flash 4 based interview I slapped together for one of the best bands never to make it… I mean, ahem, they sort of made it. I have no clue where they are now. They do still have a website though, but its changed drastically since they were on their old record label.

I’ve not yet found thier album ‘kosmosis’ in any shops, but I hope it got released in the end.

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Mira Calix

10th of Jan, 2000ce* in: kleber, websites

Was great fun making this. Some of my first flash 4 work. I met Mira and she gave me a special bee badge (edit: which I still own to this day!)

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Merz

28th of Oct, 1999ce* in: kleber, websites

Now ousted from the mother label Sony, with a different site to boot, this Merz website is old history.
I used to update the old Merz website when he was up & coming. When he decided to release his first album, we shut down the old website to be replaced with this.

A journey of html, art (by the talented Kam Tang), photography and music.

Merz is a talented man, and his music is great. Hell, I damn well put together a great website for the guy too. Chris at Kleber directed my efforts, to create a final product that I could well say was one of the first really decent sites I ever managed to get out the door.

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