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Nice site.

Very interesting idea. I hope it makes enough to attract more artists to your site.

The way the content on the right hand side of panels floats around (see games or home) is very distracting.

For SEO reasons, you need to fix your title tags. Currently you have the same title tag for each section front (and other pages like your terms of service).

Your robots.txt file does not point to a sitemap.xml file and I could not find one in the normal places. If you don't have a sitemap.xml file, make it. It's a quick win to get all of your site indexed into the search engines.

Your 404 page is cute, but you need more navigation on the page. The navigation is more important than being cute.

Not a problem, but I find it funny that your terms of services state both:

"Individuals under the age of 13 are prohibited from accessing Anjuno..."

and

"Anjuno Inc does not discriminate on the basis of age..."

Sure does look like age discrimination to me. :)

Otherwise, your site looks nice. Kind of blocky, but that's ok.

As with every other site in the world, your success is going to depend on your content. You need a good biz-dev person who is actively trying to attract good artist.

Good luck!

I think the design is fine. It is clean and not too clutter on the main page, which is a big plus for me at least. I think some of the text is a bit small. Maybe add some large text concisely stating the purpose of the site is on the landing page. Usability wasn't an issue for me.

This is a great idea. As an artist, I want this. Question: I have several bands. Should I create an artist login for each?

The design looks quite decent, plenty good enough. Better than MySpace, though that's a low bar.

I don't quite understand the home page layout. There's a featured book, playlist, then top, recently added, etc. As a visitor, which do you want me to look at first, and why? Why are books and music so asymmetric?

Did you really get thousands of plays within a couple of weeks? How?

Why Anjuno? How should I remember the name?

First impressions on hitting the front page:

* Pretty nice design. Very green. Definitely busy...lots of stuff to look at.

* Most popular what? Highest rated what? Newly added what? I don't understand what these lists contain. The three highest rated things all have the same picture. Users? Music tracks?

* The main graphic reads like a banner ad, and I skipped it entirely until my (perhaps) 3rd pass through the page.

* "Connecting artists to the world". Who is this site for...regular people or artists? The rest of the page seems geared to regular people (e.g., "your playlist"), but that slogan seems geared towards artists. Perhaps create a separate page/marketing pitch for artists and users?

* The front page is busy. I see slogans, but there's nothing that really tells me why I would want to use this page.

* I'd like to try the music player out, but I'm new to the site. Maybe you could pre-populate the player with some tracks?

* The block with book info feels out of place. Everything else is music. In fact, the front page doesn't do a good job of selling any of the categories except music.

Design is real decent. Doesn't appear you need to hire a pro! What separates you from MySpace? Seems like the music section is the only thing that keeps their motor running and they're good at it. Projectplaylist also has a similar service. What does Anjuno stand for?

The design is very impressive for not having hired a professional designer. I like the organization of the site and it's definitely straightforward and very easy to use.

I think it's a great idea and a great platform for unknown artists to showcase their work and a great place for discovery (like myspace etc).