R&P Post 23: Planning my Web Pages

Websites are very important when gratifying the needs of audiences as it allows them to develop their view on our band and find out more information about them.

We initially drew out flatplans for our website using pen and paper but decided that online copies would be much more effective. Having researched websites before we already had some ideas of what we wanted on our website but in my further research I found that it is very common for music band websites to have a banner. As  shown below, Red Hot Chilli Peppers have a very simplistic banner but next to it on the left is there easily recognisable logo.

Cute Is What We Aim For are an alternative, indie band with a very linear website, similar to a blog where the pages overlap and you can scroll through one after the other. As we want our band to be very modern and upcoming, we may follow witht his idea of our website being quite similar to a blog and all features interconnected throughout the website.

Below are the templates that we created and I think the synergy between each page is quite evident, from the black back ground to the font within the header. 

This black and white theme was very similar to Katfish and the Bottlemen and Arctic Monkeys. We chose it as it was clearly popular with our target audience and was a great generic signifier. 

After creating the homepage, I then decided to compare our flatplan to Cage The Elephant's hompage. 

• Our video page was created so that the audience could interact with our website in a free and easy manner. We decided that we would create the website so that it had multiple videos on the page as opposed to just one, thus being distinguishable from our homepage. 
• Our gallery page will consist of images from our performance shoot on the rooftop, our promo shoot, our paper scenes and behind-the-scene photos. This allows the audience to take a more personal approach to our band. The style of a collage is very quirky and easy to use. 
• Our tour & merch page allow the audience to spend their money and buy into our products. We therefore provided our TA with multiple different opportunities to do this; multiple tour dates for different venues across the UK, keyrings, t-shirts etc.