Hi and welcome to our brand new homepage. We have redesigned our site for your convenience and also because we were tired of the old one 😉
But not only the look has changed, there are plenty of new features and improvements. Just have a look and see for yourself. Please address suggestions, criticism and error reports to our webmaster. Thanks.
Latest Changes
- May 26th, 2006: Our homepage was moved to a new, faster and more powerful server infrastructure. If you experienced some difficulties to reach us in the last few days we apologize for the inconvenience.
- Mar 22nd, 2005: added Site of Month Archive page with all our favourite links to many interesting internet resources.
- Dec 29th, 2003: added submit page for the resource center. If you have useful information for our databases, please add it there.
- Dec 17th, 2003: added the CD admin tool in the my backline! section. Go to bands, select one of your bands and go to the bottom of the page to find the CDs for that band. Click on one to edit it or create a new entry.
- Dec 15th, 2003: we decided to launch our webring, earlier than projected as we already have over a dozen subscribers in only a few days. So don’t wait no longer and join now.
- Dec 4th, 2003: added the webring, subscription page where you can submit your homepage to the backline! music webring that will be available in January.
- Nov 24th, 2003: added resource center, a searchable database with useful addresses of associations, administrations, venues, concert and festival promoters and much more.
- Nov 5th, 2003: added advanced search modus to site search plus dedicated search forms in bands area, agenda and cd archive.
- Sep 23rd, 2003: added new CD Archive.
- Sep 20th, 2003: new version of backline.lu goes online.
Additions
- Complete redesign of the look of our site.
- Introduction of the my backline! area where you can manage all your band profiles, small ads, agenda entries, newsletters and more with a unique username and password.
- Print function for printer friendly version of any viewed page.
- Send function to show any viewed page to a friend.
- Spam filter on submission forms to avoid undesired entries to the small ads, agenda and other.
Improvements
- Home Page: all the important information at a glance. Latest news, last CD releases, upcoming events, newest changes and additions all available on our first page.
- Databases: all our databases (agenda, bands area, newsletters, news…) are now presented in an easy to use interface with own navigation.
- Agenda: you now have the possibility to edit/delete your events provided you were logged in when submitting them. You can also submit an event flyer or a random band picture of one of the participating bands will be displayed automatically.
- Advertising: you now have the possibility to edit/delete your small ads provided you were logged in when submitting them. You can also submit a picture along with your small ad.
- Newletters: added newsletter archive with older editions, newsletter logo and pictures.
- Search Engine to scan static pages and databases in one go.