I created a rough music website using my 'random album cover' artist and theme to help develop my website creating skils, using the website www.wix.com
I decided that my artist was going to be a country/ folk singer songwriter from Georgia. Therefore i tried to keep the themes of the website along these lines, helping to create the artists image and promoting her music.
I kept the whole website quite simple only adding a few pages as i though a more neice type of music would probably have a slightly older target audience, so therefore would probably be attracted to a slightly more basic website rather than a really 'in your face' website.
I tried to make the font as similar to the one of the album to keep the theme running through all her products.
From doing this i have developed a few skills ready for when i create my website for my coursework. Some of these skills include:
- How to navigate around www.wix.com
- Knowledge of what a music should look like
- Knowledge of what the website should include
- Being able to hold a theme throughout various pieces of work
- Practise in how to set out a website, learning what should be most prominent and what is slightly less important. As well as thinking about what looks best placed where on the page.
If i was to improve this website i would:
- Add some pictures of the artist, making sure there was close ups of her
- Add a music player, automatically playing her tracks as you enter the website
- Add more personalised merchandise that links to her and here genre
- Make the menu smaller, more subtle and fit into the colour scheme of the rest of the website
- Add a subscription area, for fans to sign up to a mailing list and access "exclusive" footage/ music and media
Good. This is the type of post that will put you firmly in level 4. Can you make the link to your site active so that your reader can simply click on it? I like the web site and how you have thought about generic conventions. Perhaps it would also be improved by considering the positioning of the album cover and the size and colour of the main text.
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