R + P Post 23: Planning my web pages

A website is very important for promotion in any industry, especially in the music industry. It can be a central hub for an artist to share all the information they need to in order to connect with their audience. It is also a brilliant way to create a visualised image for their brand so as to attract their target audience. The best websites, from research, allow the audience to interact with the website; for example through quizzes. They also feature numerous images and videos to show the audience what the artist is about and allow them to get a feel for what they're like, rather than the audience having to read pages of writing.

We have taken a lot of inspiration from the following web pages:

We want our website definitely to have:

1. a page dedicated to images of MiraJax - this can be seen on Rihanna's website (the first screenshot) 
2. our homepage to have several sliding screens - this can be seen on AlunaGeorge's website (the second screenshot)
3. a latest news page - like on Justin Bieber's website (third screenshot)
4. a menu bar that is visible no matter what page you are on - this can be seen on Rae Sremmurd's website (image 4)

We designed a plan for the website:

Each page will be on the same whole scrolling page. The website will effectively be one very long page with subsections which can be either scrolled to or navigated to via the menu bar as a short-cut. 

On our homepage, we want to straight away promote the new album (like AlunaGeorge has done). We feel this will establish that this is a music website and give the audience a purchasing option straight away. 

Finally, we want to have numerous social media links so the audience feels in connection with their idols. It also allows for easy promotion of upcoming albums and videos which will be exposed o all the social media page's followers.