Creating a title

Our first job for creating our website was to create a title that would be the most eye-catching part of the website. We decided quite early on that with our band being called The Wired we wanted the title to look as though it had been made out of wire. Furthermore we wanted a glow around the title to look like an electrical current. We thought we could then have the wire coming from both sides of the page to meet in the middle, creating the letters.

To create our titles we first went onto Dafont.com and search for wire looking fonts. These are to two we found:

After discussing our options with the two fonts we decided on the second one 'herrliches_script' as it gave us more opportunity to edit it and add effects.

We then started playing around with different options:

We then decided this one was our favourite as it was darker and more indie rock like however the flare of blue still added slight colour. We also felt it looked the most wire like as the red ones reminded me of an illuminous sign.

After deciding we like this title we wanted to have a go and creating the swirling wire either side of the title: