Our website...

We have started to create the website to promote our band.

This is the start of our website. We have kept with the same colour schemes that are on our blog. We are going to add pictures and information on our band. We have also added our song to the page so when people click onto the website our song will be playing. We havn't decided wether we will put the music video or the song playing first. We think it would be easier to have our music video playing because this is easier for the people looking on our website as they can pause it when they want to stop it. It is sometimes more difficult to find how to stop songs playing on websites and videos are much easier to find.

Website Creation Software Ideas

I have been thinking about the website creation software that we could use to create of bands website and I have looked at a few different pieces of software, some of the pieces of software i have looked at include

• Interspire Website Design, I feel that this software is very simple to use and easy to work with but i feel that if does not have enough features to create an effective opening page to a website, i also think that the cost of the software at $395.00 for the standard edition is too steep for a new band to be using and I feel that realistically they would probably not have to funding to use this software.
• Serif Webplus 10. I have looked into the features of this software and it seems that it would be very capable of creating a decent website for a starting band, and for only $9.99 it would be an ideal product to use for a new band that needs a start up site i feel that we could use this then eventually move to more advanced software to create a better site.
• Macromedia Dreamweaver C4. I have looked into this software and i feel that this software would be a very good investment as it is a very adequate website developments software and we already have access to this software also so it would be a good way to start with this software then improve software if we ever became mainstream. I also feel that this software would be the best to use as we already have a good knowledge and understanding about the features and how to operate this software so i feel that we could implement the best site to our ability using this software.

Website Ideas...

http://www.greenday.com/site/homepage.php

I have just looked at Greenday's website and i really like the font on this website as it's unusual and looks good with the background on the website as it's simple and stands out. The three colour scheme stands out and makes the website attract the audience's attention. We might use a similar font as we think it's effective.

General Artist Website Layout

I have done some research into general website looks and layout for artists/bands that are the same genre of music as our band, i have looked at artists such as 'Sting', 'Rod Stewert' and mant more and i have found that there is a general layout that is common amung these sites i have found that the either the bakground of the actual site is a picture or there is a large picture of the band centered in the middle of the page so you instantly recongnise them when you lookat the site, there is also a common feature of tabs across the tops of the pages with things such as tour dates, ticket booking E.T.C., i think that we should style our site similar as these woth slight altercations, such as i think we should have large text in the centre of our page with an eye catching font to grab the viewers attention. If we can instantly grab the audiences attention at the instant they open he page then hopefuly they will continue to read on, I feel this would work better as the faces of the band would not be very well know so the audince might just click off the site.

I have also found that most of the sites i have looked at have followed a 'Three Colour Pallet' colour scheme where you have the main background one darker colour and then a very contrasting colour for the text, then the final colour is used for important links/news E.T.C.

Rhys...

Foo Fighters Website

http://www.foofighters.com

I have looked at the band 'The Foo Fighters' opening page to their website and i feel that the opening page to this site may be a little too simple as it is just a picture of them on stage and an E-Mail sign up box, i feel that we can take inspiration from this still thou as i think that the colour scheme of white and black works very well and I fell it is very eye catching and stands out. This is effective as it grabs the audiences attention and this is the target of our website page. I also like the tabs at the top of the site as it is easy to find an navigate thorough the site itself and from experience i know that if a website is harder to navigate then it is more likely the audience will click off of it, So i feel that we cold take some inspiration from the tabbed pages layout.

Rhys...

Website Ideas...

http://www.nickelback.com

Even though most of Nickelback songs are more rock than soft rock, because we have been inspired by their soft rock video "Photograph". I decided to have a look at their website for an idea of our website. I really like their enter page for their website they have a music video on the front, and for ours it would be really good if we can put our video on our website. I think the colour scheme of using 3 colours is effective and this stands out and draws the attention of the audience.

Jess...