Website Designs

Website Designs

The Green Day website has a bright, attractive home page which is easy to navigate. The Bright colours and band logo header is important along with the layout of the navigation bar at the top of the page providing an easily accessible service. 
We like the idea of having a simple layout with the use of colours to create clear sections of the page for easy access.

We like the simple navigation bar of the above websites and the simple layout. A clear, simple, site where all areas can be easily located is our main concept.

Some common features of Band pages are:

• A clearly placed logo that can be easily seen.
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• A navigation bar with easy access to different areas of the site.
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• Links to subscribe to the website for more updates.
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• Links to social media in order to allow the audience to follow the band.
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• Samples of music and music videos to draw in a new audience that may be unfamiliar with the band and their music.
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• recent tour dates and links to purchasing tickets.
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We have found problems when looking at the websites for Blink 182 and New Found Glory as there is little instruction on how to access certain features of the site. We find the darker colours make the site less appealing and that the amount of space taken up by the band’s logo is too much as it creates an absence of more important features.

Jim Lockey and the Solemn sun 

The website for Jim Lockey and the Solemn Sun has a very clinical, clean appearance due the the use of neutral colours, this clinical attitude can also be portrayed in the banner, which can be viewed add to the professional feel on the site. The site also allows easy access to social media profiles and key information about the band such as tour dates.       

Frank Turner

Similar to jlss , Frank turner's website has a very simple clean appearance with the colour scheme taken from his latest album "Tape Deck Heart". Similar to that of Jlss the site  allows easy access to Frank's social media profiles and key information about the Artist such as tour dates. also the website has a directly link to the site where merchandise of the artist is sold.  

Foo Fighters

Unlike the other pervious two website I  studied their is no photo on the band on the homepage for the foo fighters this could be due to the fact Foo Fighters have a a larger following the FT and Jlss and perhaps don't have to market themselves as much. however one criticism is that the site feels outdate, it missing things such as link to media , obviously it has a link to the twitter account for the band but this seems to be the only social media, also a lot the links in the banners leads to empty webpages.       

Sum 41

Similar to the website for Foo Fighters the homepage doesn't include a image of the band again this could be to do with the notoriety of the band, meaning there is less empathise on marketing the band apart for that is has everything you would expected links to social media and merchandise, one criticism I would have is that the white writing on the pale background is not aesthetically pleasing or practical,          

Green Day

Green day's website is more what I expected of websites for a  pop-punk artist it's use of vibrant colours is more of what I expected from our research, I mean in contrast to the other pop-punk bands in this post Sum-41,The Offsprings,New Found Glory,Simple plan and AAR. Also the site doesn't have many links to social media making it atypical of the other websites in two ways.   

New found glory

Simple plan

The All-American Rejects

The Offspring