Music on Webpages

Don't do it.

Please.

If there is one thing that is going to drive traffic away from your site it is music.

Especially inappropriate music: www.angelfire.com/ms3/mikitravis/index.html

It says 'keep clicking refresh to change the music' - I don't want to change it to something else I want to turn it OFF.

Where can I turn it off....ahhhhhhhh.

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Online Visions

www.online-visions.com is a site full of magic effext ideas and articles.

There's a bit of padding, but quite a few interesting effects which at the very least get the creative juices flowing.

This idea for the Paul Harris 'Reality Twister' effect is pretty cool. I'd always wondered how you could actually present it so it looked like more than just a puzzle...

The Perfect Shuffle

Oops, I missed my 4th day. Is that poor or what?!

This is an interesting page:

www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/cs4fn/mathemagic/brentmorris.php

This chap is a computer scientist and interested in magic - a dangerous combination.

On this page he talks about perfect shuffles and how you can send a card to any position in the pack using a sequence of in and out faros. Of course you have to quickly convert decimal into binary and be able to perform faro shuffles to use this technique. Not easy.

There are other ways of acheiving the card to any number effect, most easier than this. But it is an interesting idea to have tucked away, maybe it could be used in conjunction with something else...?

Magic Spam

What's this all about?

I found this site http://magic.bloggy4u.com which appears to take extracts from other blogs with magic related keywords (wedding magic, close-up magic etc) to create a blog, on which there are magic adverts.

This is a good magic blog though by David Britland: cardopolis.blogspot.com. Quality ideas and writing.

This latest idea is particularly good, an easy method with loads of scope for playing around with the presentation.

A bit of mentalism

Today's site is devoted to mentalism, www.mentalismuk.co.uk.

No great shakes as far as design goes, but it has some interesting content including reviews of mentalism effects and some quite interesting interviews.

I also like the online effects section which includes some interesting and practical effects to try out. You can never get enough ideas and magical knowledge.....

My first post

So, what's this blog all about then?

Well, I'm just going to be bringing you an interesting magic website everyday. Easy huh?
(4/7/06 No, not easy. One a day was over ambitious, it's now maybe one a week - I'm not going to commit myself!)

And the very first is....www.magicweek.co.uk the site for magic news in the UK.

A pretty safe starting point, not controversial at all. Worth checking regularly for, erm< news and stuff. One of the best bits is the private ads pages. The worst bit is that this site is designed in frames, so I'm not/can't give you a direct link to the ads pages. Maybe I'll find something more esoteric tomorrow.