Planning - Website Research

One of the media texts which we have to create is a website. For our website to be as good as the real world websites out there today it is important to conduct research into existing websites. This will help us to know what to include in our websites and trends that these websites have that our own one can keep in line with. This will make sure our website is at industry standard and convenient for the world today.

The first website that we researches was Rihanna’s. Rihanna is a very contemporary artist and is currently at the height of her fame meaning her website will be the perfect example of what to include on our own one. Above is a screen shot of the home page. It is very iconic making use of photos and graphics to make it aesthetically pleasing. This will be some to consider for our own website as if it is pleasing to the eye then people would want to come back and visit the website.

On Rihanna’s website was a navigation bar placed at the top of the page. This was common among a number of other music websites that we visited. This will be something that will we have to consider for our website, therefore affecting the outcome. We can also take ideas for what pages we will want to include by looking at this.

Twitter is a very popular social networking site at the moment and on these artists’ website twitter is commonly integrated into them. An idea that has a risen from this is to include a live twitter feed so people that visit the website are able to know the latest news about Kanye West.

Another website that we researched was Eminem’s. This was done as we wanted to research a website that was in the same genre as our chosen artist. In this case the rap genre. Below is a screenshot of the home page.

The photograph on the home page is very dominant, something that we may want to consider for our website. There is a video reel on the right displaying the latest videos uploaded by Eminem so they can be easily accessed by the visitors. This would be great for us as we may want to include our new music video on the home page so people are more likely to watch it. Again there is a navigation bar at the top. Also the artists’ “logo” can be found in the top right hand corner on both Rihanna’s and Eminem’s sites. For our website we may want to create a logo and include it in the same position. The black seems to be the dominant colour scheme of the website maybe due to the genre of music. Seeing as our genre is the same we may want to have black or a similar dark colour as the main colour scheme for our website.

-BYRAN FERROL-