![]() I had to register the domains first for the idea to work. I get at least one message a week from someone being really pissed off the site doesn’t make sound anymore. It’s obviously way better with the music, so that’s a bit sad. Thanks to everyone’s horrible spammy sites chrome and safari have disabled auto-playing audio so I had to take the music out. The first version of the site would play a mp3 of the “hey…hooo” part of Naughty by Nature’s Hip hop hooray. Technically the site is pretty basic…it is just a javascript redirect back and forth between two domains. What was the hardest part of building it? Once I got rid of those terrible illustrations the site got a lot more traffic. ![]() I remember the first version had some poorly illustrated hands-in-the-air images that looked like the glove from the Hamburger Helper commercials. This stupid site was one of the things I made. I decided to do one of those 30 days of creativity where you try to make a project every day for a month. Sometimes “creative” people need a kick in the ass and some structure to stop being lazy. ![]() What were the circumstances behind creating heeeeeey Hoooooo? The site has gotten around 50m unique visitors, and you have to assume they’ve been redirected a few times back and forth…so, god….a bazillion? I’ve made some really big websites for clients like Google and Apple and I will guarantee more people have gone to Heeeey-hoooo. How many Heeeeey Hooooo’s do you think the world has seen and heard? ![]()
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