Artist's Website

Website Home Page

This is my home page for the artist's website, I wanted to keep it similar to the music video, I decided to do this by making the website black and white.

The image I used I wanted to be simply posed so that the artist is looking at the audience but so that the audience are not only looking at her but also seeing her. The top she is wearing has stripes on this meant that there is detail, but not enough to distract the audience from the artist herself.

The links I put at the top of the page this is because I feel it makes the site easy to navigate around and gives the page a look of professionalism. This also means that the links bar and image can remain in the same place on every page and the links bar will be clear enough to see so that it is accessible to the audience, but also so that any other objects that are put on the page are not obscurred.

As this is the home page of the website I decided to leave this page very simple with just the artist's picture, name and links so that the audience can instantly recognise whose site they are on and they can look at the information they want, in their own time instead of having in pushed upon them. The font I chose to use for Bethany was Lucida Handwriting this was because I wanted the writing to flow and I felt the best way to get this was throught the use of 'joined-up' writing with curves, rather than a harder more rigid font.

I created this page on Macromedia Dreamweaver. I kept the background white and created layers in order to add the image, text, bar and links. The image was the first thing that I added to the website. The image I edited in Adobe Photoshop, I changed the image to black and white and then edited out the background and any stray hairs that didn't look right in the photo. I decided to put the image to the left hand side of the page as she is looking over her right shoulder and so the image wouldnt work on the right hand side of the pagel. I also didn't want it in the centre, as I wanted to carry the layout through to every page so to have the image in the centre would allow very little space for any objects or would mean putting the objects on top of the artist's image and as the website is to promote the artist I felt this would not suit this aim. I had decided to put the links bar at the top of the page in order for the user to have easy navigation around the site. The font I used for the links I wanted to be similar to the font for Bethany, however not the same, so I kept the font 'joined-up' and put the writing white so that it can be seen against the grey and still keep with the blach and white colour scheme.

Photo's Page

Obviously the layout with the artist's image and link bar have remained the same, this is so that there is continuity throughout the website. The image constantly allows promotion through the image and the links bar means that the user can easily navigate around the site.

The photos were all edited using Adobe Photoshop and would be constantly updated depending on events the artist has attened/performed at. The would also change when ever the there was a new album/single release so that there is the referencing between the artist's work and what is on the website. The photos would be randomly put on the page, rather than in straight lines, this is because the target audience wouldn't want to see photos arranged in, what would appear to them as boring.

Other Pages of the Website

The other pages of the website include:

Music - this will have information about the artists up coming music, singles and albums, on this page there will also be the most recent music video.

Biography - on this page there will be information all about the artist's life.

Events - this page will have information about any concerts and festivals the artist will be perfoming at. Also any appearances they will be at.

Lyrics - this page will mean that the audience will be able to access the lyrics to the artist's songs.

All these pages will be updated regularly to keep the audience informed.

Also as artist's often change their look etc, for different albums songs the layout and colour scheme will change depending on the release of new music etc.

If I had the capabilities I would like to have a small media player at the top of each page that plays about 3 of the artist's most recent songs.