Wednesday, 8 January 2020

Website Planning

Reasons for creating a website:

  • Allows you to be in total control of website
  • Can start to build a coherent branding (website and music video)
  • Cannot rely on social media platforms
  • Use of tags to attract an audience
  • You can do anything and everything with the website
  • Sell what you like at whatever price you like
  • Make money through a sponsorship
5 Thing A Good Band Site Needs:
  • Be up to date and promoting the artist
  • Do NOT be too text heavy
  • Have a "house style" for the band
  • Include links to music, merch, etc.
  • Easy navigation to other sites.


Extra notes:

Allows for attraction to website through use of limited edition merchandise:

  • Vinyls
  • CD's
  • T-shirts
  • Etc.
Needs other audio visual content

Use quotes - reviews

Make reference to Sony Music

Music page- detailing album and details

Allows for interaction (mailing list)

clear sense of branding (house style)

Original Audio/Audio-visual content on web-page

Two original images - one different original image that promotes and reinforces brand identity

Appropriate conventions of website design, including an original title, and logo, for the band's web page and a menu bar

Text that introduces the band/artist

Working links from the home page to the other page

A range of appropriate media language techniques, typography; images; font; backgrounds; logo, as an appropriate to the purpose of the website

1 home page and 1 linked page

Toolbar design:
  • Home - working links
  • About
  • Music - working link two
  • Videos
  • Merch
  • Contact