FINAL Website

http://rprice19314.wix.com/suburbantypo

Please bear in mind that this website was designed on and made for a 16:9 screen, so PC and smaller Mac users may experience difficulty. With a bigger budget, these problems could be fixed for the band so that the website could be viewed no matter the mode, but for this small band this is just a technical issue.

Here are some screenshots of how the site should be viewed on an appropriate monitor.

Also, I recently received an email from Wix.com informing me that they'd been having trouble with their Twitter feeds, so if it appears blank this may be why.

Casting the rest of the band

For my ancillary tasks, I knew I needed more band members than just Connor. I have therefore been enquiring around my friends to find other boys willing to be part of Suburban Typo. This is who I have found. 

Jack Cooper

Patrick Cole

Louie Bentley

Progression of website

One thing I have been spending my time working on is my website. Although we are continuing to edit and focus on other areas of our coursework, I have spent most of my time on my website to hopefully get it done and then I can focus properly on editing and such.

My website has proven to be fairly tricky for me to create. Having never really used the website builder Wix.com before, I was new to how to create things on the site and achieve the look and feel I wanted.

My first draft of my website looked like this:

 

I quite liked this design as I felt the old paper provided an interesting look for the website and also linked with the idea in our music video of a girl going back in time. Similarly, my navigation bar was made to look like a timeline. However, I quickly grew tired of the design as it wasn't quite how I wanted it to look, and I decided to start again.

I kept a saved copy of my original draft, but now that I'd practiced how to use Wix, I felt more confident starting again. I am now much more happy with my second draft as I feel it replicates a lot of the band websites I had seen in the genre. I love the layout and think it's a lot more artistic, and hopefully I'll see this design through to the end!

Analysing Websites

Website navigation bars

The first thing I noticed when looking into the navigation bars of websites was the colour scheme. They were all quite dark with one or potentially two feature colours to make it stand out, and this is something I could bring in to my work.

The reason I wanted to look into navigation bars was to look at what pages specifically I wanted to include. They all have a homepage, a tour/events page, a media/gallery page, and a store. Most of them also have social network icons with links to external pages. I could definitely include this into my work to make my website really impressive.

The pages I have decided to use:

Website Homepage Analysis

Now that the robbery has happened, we are trying to put as much focus as we can on our websites/digipaks because it is something we can do from home. I'm starting to think about building my website but before I do so, I decided to look at some homepages so that I know what to include in my own.

 

You Me At Six Website Analysis

Eye movement of participants when looking at websites

An article, published in 2006, suggested that when an audience read webpages their eyes travel in a typical 'F' shape. This means that websites have recently been designed to be very orientated to the left as the study suggested items on the right of the screen tend to be more ignored. 

We can see this to be true in You Me At Six's website, as the navigation bar is on the left and other items are in the middle, with the right of the webpage left blank. This means that the audience's eye movement would allow them to capture all the necessary information without missing anything.