I've been doodling around with a new design for Das Bandts web site. So far I've got this. Markus isn't too fond of the background, "too clean". So eventually it'll get dirtied up a bit. The most important thing for me when making this was to make modifications easy. That's the reason for the full background image (sure, it's a bit of a load, but band sites should be pretty, not functional) and the iframe. Right now my biggest concerns are a) resolution, is it too big for most people? (again, pretty is more important than functional, but it shouldn't get too annoying) and b) the animated sliders file size, does the preloader work? I also get a little bit of ugly white around them.
Would appreciate some input before I hand it over to my little brother to put in the actual content.

Listening to: Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack - Jack's Lament

a couple of hours later:

I'm jittery from eating too much chocolate, I've also come to the conclusion that even though the goodness of a good blue cheese is opposite the goodness of chocolate, green cheese is not anti chocolate. A chunk of blue cheese will not neutralize the effects of chocolate. So I'm still jumpy. But at least I've got that good aftertaste in the back of my mouth. It's almost like the acid taste after you throw up. The almost being that it's not quite strong enough to burn.
It doesn't help that I just watched most of The Matrix. I started watching "28 Days Later" but I could only stand a few minutes before I switched channel. And what do you know, they're showing The Matrix on channel one. And since it's a public srvice channel, no commercials :D. Even though I still don't like the story, I can enjoy the effects, camera work and action choreography.