Tallyhall.com

tallyhall.com was the website for the band Tally Hall, hosting pictures, videos, and merchandise, as well as touring dates and general updates on the band.

History

tallyhall.com would first surface in early 2003, though there are no existing archives of the site past November 2003. It originally ran on Adobe Flash and was created by Zubin Sedghi. It would host small journal entries from the members and random photos from their travels. In September of 2004 the site's design gain a major overhaul, including a new tree design as well as videos, audio, and merchandise. This consisted of Complete Demos on CD and a chinchilla shirt, an early mascot for the band.

tallyhall.com circa November 2003.

The band would release the music video for Banana Man on tallyhall.com, a video that would give them new-found attention outside of their native home in Michigan due to websites like AlbinoBlackSheep. The attention would boost website views and merch sales, and shows would get bigger and bigger from its popularity.

In April 2005, they would first describe themselves as a "wonky rock" band on tallyhall.com. Later on the 20th of September, the site would be revamped for the second time. The site would rely less on Flash and more on HTML, with a new updates corner on the main page. Press and contact pages were added as well.

Another major overhaul would be the journal page, which now included many pictures and links, along with much lengthier updates. In October the band launched the Tally Hall forums, a place for Tally Hall fans to discuss the band. On the 24th of November, the site would move to a new web server, as well as announcing a street team rewards program on the 30th.

Nothing major would be added to the site in 2006, aside from a flash element advertising the re-release of Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum on the center right. Similar happened in 2007, only journal entries, news, and tour updates.

In 2008, the band would announce the release of the long awaited music video for Good Day, along with the new Boralogues filmed and edited by friend of the band Bora Karaca. These would later follow with a complete site overall in April, running entirely on Adobe Flash yet again. The site was archived with archive.org during this time, but due to the failing to archive the .swf on Internet Archive's part, this design is mostly lost and this period of tallyhall.com gets trickier to tell. Episodes of a new web show, Tally Hall's Internet Show, would premiere on the site from September 2008 to January of 2009 and later be removed 2 years after the last episode was premiered.

The 2008 Adobe Flash design would stick until 2011, when tallyhall.com was briefly updated to promote their tour for the then-upcoming album Good & Evil. Preorders for the album would also go up on Quack!Media's website. This design would only stick for about a month, and it would soon be redesigned yet again, keeping the black and white theme of Good & Evil. Many parts of tallyhall.com were also removed and simplified. Tally Hall announced a fan contest to win your own personal theme song in promotion of the tour, the new internet shoppe was soon opened with Starz.bz, and they would announce an & music video.

tallyhall.com, circa 2011.

The last journal post would be posted on October 21th, 2013, talking about the cancellation of the & video and new Turn The Lights Off music video, and the site went mostly dormant.

Sometime in mid 2013 the final major update to tallyhall.com would happen, being reduced to a couple of buttons linking to other websites. As of now the site has remained like this with minimal changes, only the "INTERNET SHOPPE" link would change into the Needlejuice Records store page for Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum.