Website Devlopment

This is another draft of our ancillary task of making a website to accompany the promotional video. We have picked out several flaws, including the text seeming to amateurish and the overall layout not being aesthetically pleasing. Furthermore it was lacking some essential website links, such as a log in page, gallery, etc.


Firstly the logo that was created for the album artwork, was used on the website to maintain a band identity.


From the offset we had collectively decided to include the video and below an album advert in the remaining space on the right hand side. The initial idea for the album advert came from an album advert that was seen on the band Two Door Cinema Club's' homepage. Their advert features a close up of the main image on their album artwork which features the crowned cat, this is adjacent to the name of their album which fades in and out to show the band's name, the name of the album and where you can purchase it.

We took inspiration from this concept, and tried to apply to our front cover. Initially we thought about doing almost an exact copy with the Television to the right of the advert featuring a blurred image of the band, and then the album name ('acolyte') and then 'out now' fading in and out. However seeing as though the image was a television in itself, we decided to manipulate this, and feature all the information and images on the static television screen itself.

Although it is not visible here upon entering the website the television turns on, then becomes static before a picture of the band appears with the title 'acolyte'( which you can see below on the image at the bottom) this then fades into the words 'out now' and this repeats itself if you remain on the home page.

In addition from the existing website research we did, Sam decided to add conventional links, such as; Gallery, Bio, Releases and a sign up section. Consequently he included a log in section below the links tab, where existing members can post comments on updates if it was an existing website.

Furthermore a criticism of the previous home page was that in the updates section each update wasn't clearly separated from each other as they were all in white. In contrast we changed the colour scheme of the updates to match the links tab. The date of each post is in blue and the information is in green, moreover any links are in white, so it is easy for audiences to navigate their way through the page.