Tuesday 8 November 2011

Looking at artist websites and their layouts


As we are now making our website for our band, we thought it would be beneficial to look at current websites at the moment, and use them for inspiration.
From looking at various websites we found that in general most websites had their navigation bars at the top across the website, links to social media: Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and many photos and videos. On many of the websites the artists' image (the image used on all their marketing platforms at the moment for their current album) would be really large at the top of the page, either as a banner or part of the background.
On the homepage there is also usually a lot of information, including a newsfeed, tour dates and a twitter widget, all of which are layed out nicely in columns and boxes, making it easier to read.


We looked at Rihanna's website in particular because that had flash on the website, so making it similar to the flash websites we were creating with Wix. The homepage was really pretty with the photos moving and changing every so often, something which we may like to achieve with Wix. We decided that we would want moving images and transitions for our website, for example for an enter page.

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