This week myself and Rachel started making developments towards creating our website for the band. We used our preliminary research done on similar bands websites to establish what we should include on the homepage. This included;
- Most recent music video
- Information about the band
- Images of the band
- Merchandise
- Contact details
We decided to use web based design software Wix. We decided against using one of the websites pre-set templates as they limited our creative control in terms of layout. Below is an image of our rough draft website 'Homepage'. The basic style is simplistic yet bold and takes after some other websites we researched of a similar genre. The background picture is of an oil painting, which we have colour inverted in Photoshop. We also found found a logo for our band that could run through our products. It suitably takes after the band name (Elephant Castle), combing the two. However, we feel this image still needs to be adapted slightly, possibly using Photoshop to make it more simple and take out some of the tonal lines. This is something we will experiment with next.
Below is the beginning of our 'Media' page which we have only just begun to create. We are utilising a Wix template that gives a dynamic 'Honeycomb' effect. This page features some shots that we took on our shoot day. This is ideal but I would prefer the photos to be more coherent in the style they have been edited, so they are less random. We may have to revaluate this. With this website, we intend to maintain our theme of the 'London underground'. It is impossible to see on this screenshot, but the titles for the menu bar embody different colours of the tube lines when hovering over them. This theme will be included more as the website progresses. I would like to change the base layer oil painting to colours that more represent the London tube.
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