More websites... De Stijl Records

I was forwarded the address for the 'De Stijl Records' website. The first thing to discover is that the picture on the splash page seems to be a pick of a selection. The basic format is the same, but the image changes on refresh. I think this is a neat idea and is a way to make things look fresh and interesting:


The general design of the site is really clean and simple. And I like the general look of it. The only thing is it is quite difficult to navigate and I think a lot of the info should perhaps have been divided into separate pages e.g. news/tours/bands. The little images represent each particular band involved with the label, this too is a nice idea, BUT you have to know what you're looking at.

When you click on the image squares it takes you to a page that describes the artist and gives a general biography.
I think this website looks really nice and clean and does the job. In some ways I think it has been designed a bit too much like a magazine rather than a website. Each page stands on it's own with relatively few links to anywhere else on the site/the internet and you have to use your own browser buttons to navigate the page. It would work much more effectively and be quicker to use if they had provided their own navigation bar.