We have now finished our final website. We have added a lot of visuals to the website to make it more visually appealing to viewers, and altogether more immersive for the audience to really get involved with the band through competitions and social media.
On the home page, we have added a banner which scrolls automatically, or the viewer can flick through it. It gives the home page some movement and allows for more information to be shown. There are four different 'slides' on the banner: 'Debut Album', 'Tour Dates Announced', '20% Off' and 'Competition'. The first and third slides link to the store, the second slide links to the tour page and the final slide links to the competition page.
We have also added some more links to Instagram and Twitter, as well as some other places we are playing at such as Winter Wonderland and Rough Trade in Brick Lane. I'm very happy with the updatability of our home page now, as it has so many links to social media that are regularly updated.
We have now added our finished music video to the video page. Towards the end of editing our music video, we decided it might be a good idea to create a 'behind the scenes' video for our music video, as we found that lots of indie bands and artists had done the same, a few examples of which are shown below:
George Ezra
And here is our behind the scenes video:
We now also have a full gallery. We have two sections of the gallery: 'Music Video Shoot' and 'Promo Shots'. It took a long time for us to edit all the pictures, as we had pictures for two different folders - around 100 pictures in total. Editing a picture involved getting rid of the line between the floor and the wall, and then trying to make the colours as vibrant as possible and making sure we were all bright enough.
The rest of the pages that we wanted to add are now also finished, such as the 'sign up' page, the 'free EP' page and the 'contact us' page. We felt that all of these features allow viewers to have maximum interactivity throughout the website, as well as making the website more personal, as they can send the band messages, creating a personal relationship between the fan and the band.
Feedback on our website showed that we needed consistent visuals across the website, especially on the tour page, where we had no visuals at all. To fix this, we added a picture on the top of the tour page, shown below.
Finally, me and Alice added institutional information at the bottom of each page:
Alice then added some institutional pages that the different texts link to, and I linked the Alma Gavon website to Beggars group, as Beggars is the parent company. Below are the Alma Gavon 'contact us', 'privacy policy' and 'terms & conditions' pages.