Website Progress

We are currently in the process of constructing our website. Although it is similar to how we wanted originally planned it we have had to change a few things as they were not achievable with the software. We are using wix to create our website and this has let us do most of what we wanted to. We liked the idea of having a banner with images at the top of the website on every page.

Our home page was very similar to how we had planned however the layout meant that we had to large gaps on either side of the page. This meant we had to find images to fill these. Luckily we had lots of images due to the various photoshoots we have done. When we planned it we had not had many images on the home page but this layout looked better with a few images from the gallery placed here. We also wanted the latest news to be easily seen so we had planned to have this on the front page as well as the twitter feed. We chose to have the latest news as though it was written by our artist, this adds a personal touch to the page.

On the 'Music' page we plan to have our music video for 'Foundations' placed at the top with various other Kate Nash song clips underneath. This would promote the artist's album and help to boost sales. We also plan to have both our album cover images placed here too.

The gallery has various images from all the photoshoots we have done. We have different types of images including ones from photoshoots, behind the scenes of filming and out with fans. This helps to show off the star and maintain our star image. It also shows that our star cares about and has a connection with her fans.
The fan page has some merchandise for sale. For this we had to design and edit the images in photoshop to create the tops including some of her lyrics. We also created a chatroom so that her fans can communicate with each other.

We decided a competitions page would be a good way to add interactivity to the site. We have a video clip of our artist saying how to enter and what you win. We thought this would add a more personal element to the website and would engage with the audience more. We wanted to have a submit form to attach a video however the  software was limited so we have not yet worked out how to do this. We have also had trouble uploading the video so we have had to upload it to youtube and then embed it.

Our last page features the tour dates and locations. We chose to say that 2 locations had sold out as this made the gigs look more exclusive. We researched in depth about the locations and thought carefully about the order in which the artist would visit them. We also looked into similar artists such as Marina and the Diamonds and Florence and the Machine to see where they had performed. This gave us a better idea of suitable locations.