Music websites - Bianca
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Website Analysis Genre: Pop/alternative
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Website AnalysisGenre: Pop/alternative
Tabs• Featured along the top of the
website, and stay at the top as you scroll down the page.
• When your mouse hovers above a hyperlink, the grey text highlights pink, both the grey and pink match the soft theme of the website.
• simple block letters, easy to read, and easy to navigate.
• boxes to all their social media platforms are also featured along the top, when you hover your mouse above an icon, the colour of the website appears e.g green spotify, blue twitter, etc. Stands out, and grey still matches site.
Videos • the “videos” hyperlink
takes you to a specific place down the page, doesn’t take you to a new page.
• o n ly o n e v i d e o i s featured, the latest, but when you hover your mouse over it, arrows appear on each side as an easy way to navigate between each video, left or right.
tours / newsletter
• Tours hyperlink takes you further down the page, to advertise and let fans now where they are next heading, with pink hyperlinks and tabs within this area, and an option to track where they are, or to notify the viewer when they are next coming. a skin is also used behind this text, a faint grey zig-zag.
• newsletter is another feature where users can sign up for by entering their email, and get ‘sneak peaks’ and news about upcoming releases, and ‘exciting’ stuff, which makes the user want to sign up.
Music• the music hyperlink takes
us to a separate page with their most recent, self-titled album, available to be purchased in three separate formats.
• hovering your mouse over the ‘buy’ button b r i n g s u p d i f f e r e n t countries, then leads on to d i f f e r e n t s to r e s , providing a clean and simple way to purchase the album.
store• ON THE STORE HYPERLINK, THERES TWO
OPTIONS, FOR AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND AND FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD, EASY TO NAVIGATE.
• the FIRST store link takes the user to a completely different WEBsite, the artists use their store in conjunction with “mammoth stores”. the skin (main image) behind the site is the same as on their actual site, and the image remains there as you scroll down through the list of items available to be purchased.
homepage• changes theme depending on its most recent album, in this case, it’s
“a head full of dreams”. the website is very animated, with various sketches and drawings that move within their little area, and also the logo of the album in the centre of the webpage has a colour wheel that spins around within the logo, and when you hover your cursor over it, a hyperlink appears with the option to purchase the album.
• the site uses cookies to remember the data you have viewed to remember it when you next enter the site.
• another cute addition is the moons in the top right hand corner, which change colour depending on what time of day it is in your part of the world.
tabs• the tabs are featured down the side of the
site, and each heading slightly brightens when your cursor hovers over it to show it is selected.
• each icon is unique and features the colours of the rainbow to link into the colourful animated and positive theme of the album.
• along the bottom of the website is also each of the social media platforms, and each takes to a link. each is also a different colour of the rainbow.
news • i particularly enjoy the news tab, because of
how easy it is to navigate through. it has multiple pages, that you can flick through older and newer news.
• what is very useful though, is its side tabs. the search box brings up a giant search box taking over the whole page asking you to type in your search, and it brings up a list of key words.
• or you can navigate through month and year with the arrows.
COldplay map zoom in and select a marker, tells you more information on concerts played in that area, a timeline of their events.
COldplay timeline you can scroll through their entire timeline, jump through eras or go to years, and also able to filter through categories down the side.
homepage• the site doesn’t initially take you to the homepage, it advertises her
new album “honeymoon”, and in the bottom right hand corner, saying “enter site”.
• In the background of the website, the music video for “high by the beach”, her newest video from her newest album. this promotes users to be hooked in by the video/song and be persuaded to purchase the album.
• on top of the video playing, you also get 4 different platform hyperlinks in which you can purchase the album.
• down the right hand side, lana follows her blue, red and white patriotic theme with a scroll bar (in red and white).
• cookies are used in this website.
tabs• lana del rey has always very
much about ‘america’, especially in the 60’s era, so very vintage. the colours are often of the flag, red, blue, and white, as seen on the top of the website in the tab area.
• lana’s name in red and stands out, with her typical font, and the smaller hyperlinks of all the places that the user can be taken to in the site. the link turns red when the cursor hovers over it.
• on the top r ight hand corner are links to her social media sites, all in the same blue, and when the cursor hovers over the icon, it turns the same red as lana ’s logo. the green spotify follow logo is the only logo that isn’t blue, and stands out, being more important.
news• you can either scroll down past the main video, or click the news
tab that will take you to that place on the page. there are 8 news articles featured of the latest date.
• when your cursor hovers over an article/photo, the title of the article reverses colour from white to red, and the date from red to white, as displayed in the first news article below.
• when you click on the article, it takes you to another page, where a message board/comment section can be found to connect to other fans and express your opinions.
music / gallery / videos• as seen by the previous slide,
her page is very systematic and follows a theme. every photo and link is square (save for the videos), and her videos and galleries have her font in white over the top that turn red when hovered over.
• when you click on an image in the gallery, you enter another viewing mode, easier to scroll through, and theres an option to enter it into full screen mode.
