Conny & The Dans
The Brief
Conny & The Dans are an emerging, midlands based indie pop band. They wanted a website to showcase who they are and announce their first single.
The Stack
Due to the simple requirements, I opted to build a single page site using Astro and deployed it as a static site.
The Design
The band had already designed a logo and had a video with audio that explained who they were and what their music was about. We use this as the landing page for the site with the option for the user to disable audio for a visual only experience.
The smallest I could get the main video while still maintaining some level of quality was around 18MB so in order to minimise impact to users with slow connections, a placeholder image is loaded initially and the video is fetched asynchronously. A loading spinner is displayed to indicate to the user that loading has not finised.
Hosting
The website is hosted on a VPS in a Docker container.