DPC class - Comparison of Professional Site

During the course of the year I have been working on my personal website -

www.stevenmorrisondrums.com

I have put a lot of work into it and I am keeping it up to date with all the current projects and gigs that I have running. I have a lot of information on it about me, my current bands, endorsements, gear, press, links and photos, amongst other things like having my own stevenmorrisondrums.com business cards and my steve@stevenmorrisondrums.com email address as I purchased the domain name.

I have chosen an industry professionals website to compare my personal one to. This industry professional is Steve Gadd.

http://www.drstevegadd.com/index.htm

Steve Gadd is a world renowned session drummer who started his drumming career in the late 1940's and is still to this day touring and playing around the world. Needless to say, his website has much more content and information about everything he has done over the years so there is a lot more to read.

Personally, I think that my site has most of the same ideas, like the personal biography, current projects, tour schedule, discography, endorsements and similar. Over the course of the past year when I have been building this site I have taken guidance from other professionals sites along the way which has led to my site having most of what I need, nothing too random, over the top or disinteresting.

I am not particularly convinced of the layout of Steve Gadd's Menu selection on the left hand side of his site. It runs in alphabetical order, although I find it quite easy to get a bit lost on the menu and it seems quite randomly ordered. I specifically tried to make my menu easy to navigate, without having too many page breaks I think it is a lot easier to find what you are looking for. I like the fact that he has a lot of personal information and pictures from around the world, you can find out a lot more than you could usually find on someones personal site. I just think that there is so much there, and It could possibly be laid out in a less complicated way which would make it much easier to navigate.

Clicking around his site, I think I have taken a lot of hints from professional sites, even things like the gear list and an in depth description of the gear I use are similar to what Steve has on his site. I think that if I keep going as I am with detailing everything I do and keep it all up to speed, with any luck in the future my site will eventually have a discography the same length as Steve Gadd's.