Ugress Website
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| Ugress Website | |
|---|---|
 The front page of 2009. | |
| URL | http://www.ugress.com |
| Registration | Optional |
| Created by | Gisle Martens Meyer |
| Launched | May 17th 2001 |
The Ugress website is the home of Ugress. The daily journals of Gisle Martens Meyer can be read, all tracks in the Uncanny canon listened and web extras be unlocked at the website.
For the longest time, the hub and center of attention was the blog, until the layout and mechanics of the website were redesigned on June 9th 2009. The new website is largely purple, and features more prominent and condensed content. The most noticeable change was to merge the blog and the website together. All tracks are also now available in a browseable, commentable, rateable database, not unlike the Library.
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[edit] Web releases
Ugress has several tracks for free, full quality download on their website. Of these, Swing E Sesso (Remix) [04:13] and Out [04:32] are exclusive and not released on any recent album.
[edit] Subdomains
See the full article at Subdomains.
Many Gisle's minisites are subdomains under the ugress.com main domain.
[edit] Older websites
The longest lived Ugress website design was the blue and violet layout. It featured a banner of disarrayed old comic strip and B movie characters. The main menu was on the left, sliced into categories. The layout was made by Tetsuya Watari, Roger Price and Vincent Corman.
The Ugress website was formerly wine red and polo green in smallframe. It was updated from a aqua-and-white layout on September 25th 2001. Around March 2005 the site was updated to a wider layout, which slowly evolved to what is the Ugress website today.
The aqua-and-white layout (introduced May 17th 2001) was the shortest-lived layout for the Ugress website so far. Before that, Ugress' "website" was an entry on MP3.com.
[edit] Investigation page
The website contains a pseudohidden page, accessible by clicking the grayscale image anywhere on the site on the right navigation bar, between the "Blog" and "Calendar" boxes. The page contains simply the title "Word" and after that one random quote from different movies.
The page is called "Investigation", and it's filename is "secret_key.asp". When accessed via the image, a GET-parameter called hint is set as a random number, undepending on the image. It is not known whether the hint parameter has any effect on the phrase displayed on the page. The page's function in all is also in the dark.
Even after the redesign, the page still exists and functions. It also uses the old Ugress website layout.
