What’s Wrong With arpeggiata.com?
L’arpeggiata are an early music ensamble, lead by lutist and harpist Christina Pluhar (no relation to Erika, I was told). To sample their music, go Amazon, iTunes or to their surprisingly contemporary website.
L'Arpeggiata Website
The website is aesthetic and atmospheric, with lots of content (text, images, video), e-commerce integration, and a busy forum (that’s really a guestbook, but still …). A black-and-white concert scene serves as a scaling backdrop to a fixed-size viewing box. The box may be a bit small on larger screens, but the scroller is responsive enough and the muted design with the colorful images and videos give a very beautiful overall effect.
So, What’s Wrong With This Website? Well. See the open stack in the image below?
L'Arpeggiata: Hidden Audio Controls
The site streams music from the start and opening the stack is your only chance to access audio controls. And even then you may well overlook them because your eyes will be automatically drawn to the movement of the unfolding stack, not its base. The fact that the little arrow icon (to the left of the thumbnail for the current title) is not clickable, does not help, either.
Apart from that, beautiful site, wonderful music.
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