I can’t believe it’s been 7 years since the lonely Valentine’s Day where I launched Ride the Tempo. I am super proud of it today. I’ve met some of my best friends because of the blog and had the craziest experiences.
I can’t believe once looked like this:
Then it looked like this:
Then this:
Then I made it white for some reason:
Finally in 2015, the site became the modern look it looks today. The site is forever changing, but I’m happy that it has evolved so much over time.
I’ve always wanted to have a clickable Canadian map on Ride the Tempo so I finally found a plugin that let me do it. Check it out on the front page. I still have 9000+ posts to go through and tag the provinces but it is live and working!
At the moment, I don’t have many artist from Northern Canada. I would love to change that. If you know any cool Canadian acts from Northwest Territories, Yukon or Nunavut I would love to know!
Today I was busy redesigning my music blog Ride The Tempo. It finally has a fresh new layout that looks like it’s from 2015 and a new logo designed by my friend Paula Lafleur.
Check it out at: ridethetempo.com.
Today my music blog Ride the Tempo was featured in CBC’s list of “Canadian Music Blogs You Need to be Reading”. Normally I don’t care for lists but CBC was one of the early outlets that got me caring about Canadian music and influenced me to change the blog’s format to focus entirely on it. It was actually a difficult decision to make. Canadian music is not as popular or hit-generating as some of the bigger indie artists out there. Blogs that write about everything get a lot more hits, and return generate more ad-revenue.
I don’t blog because I think I’ll one day get rich off of it. I love exploring the Canadian music landscape. I care about it and will continue to do so.
A new year called for a new redesign on my music blog Ride the Tempo. For a while, I was obsessed with the purple dark background of the past. I’ve been wanting to change the colours and make it easier to read for long-form posts. Yesterday, in light of my resolution (or lack of) just do it, I did it. I went into the CSS and made all the necessary tweaks. Other changes including making the Disqus comment box larger and switching the plugin I used for related posts. I also redesigned the logo a bit so that it would match the new colours.
While tweaking the site is a continuous endeavour, the new colours make it easier to test new features. I’m very happy with it so far and excited to continue sharing emerging Canadian musicians with all my readers.
Tiana Feng 