Making the website

For the website we first decided that we needed to find a site to create  it on, this site needed to be accessable at school so our original plan to create it on Tumblr had to go, since although it was easily customisable with free themes it was unavailable at school and therefore we would not be able to edit it if we were in class.
After considering several websites (such as Weebly, Freewebs, webs) me and Ben decided to use Wix since it was available and unblocked at school, it was easy to edit and alter and it gave a good design.

Using images we had created for our digipak, including the cover and fonts we uploaded them onto the website, this is because when researching into other band websites we discovered that many of them did this as a marketing technique, using the same image so that it is a symbol of that band and retains in your memory. By using the same image it will help with sales and works to cross-sell products.

With creative suggestions, Ben organised the design of the website since he was most familiar with the website, and positioned the navigation bar, banners and positioned the background so that the light source of the photo-manip was in the centre of the page. He then positioned our created font/logo where it could be easily spotted and at the top with the navigation system, this was in keeping with similar codes and conventions from other sites. We decided to keep the colour scheme the same so that it looked smoother and so that everything complimented each other. This was important as other band websites I had looked at used similar palettes throughout their pages.

We felt that the video needed to be the most important aspect of our design so we placed it in the middle of the page so it immediately drew attention to viewers and so that it also was easily accessible. (this would help as a marketing technique to increase sales and views).

Overall I am pleased with the outcome of the design and think it works well to stick to similar codes and conventions of other band websites, but also includes our own original designs too.