Website analysisMegan Stone

RIHANNA

Simplicity Pinterest/pin board look on homepage

Lots of images of herself (male gaze)

Biography section is like a ‘life timeline’ as you scroll

down you get to the more recent information

about herself

Links to all of her social media are in the main bar

No strong link between her website and her latest

album

COLDPLAY Rainbow colours match their most recent album, instantly know it is their

website

Links to videos is good promotion for

their latest single

Coldplay always changes the colour scheme of their website according to their latest album

Every category has a special symbol which is same in all Coldplay website themes. All

these icons are a symbol of something. For example, the hour glass is a representation of

time so it is used as a symbol of timeline

Their news page is regularly updated and is presented using square pictures and captioned in

white clear text

BRUNO MARS

I love Bruno Mars’ homepage – it is simple yet so different to anything

I’ve seen, the background is a boomerang style clip of his dancing

from his music video

His latest single is clearly shown on homepage with a

music player you can listen to it on beneath

Tour page is simple but clear, there are links to

where you can buy tickets

Bruno’s music/video page contains his videos from his current album, links to buy both physical and digital copies and links to various different platforms in which you can

listen to his music

His pages vary from black/dark background to light/white backgrounds

SIGMA (same genre as Sigala)Bold and large artist name on homepage to

stand out, in the foreground there is a moving ‘slideshow’ of flashing videos from his concerts

of the audience

As well as having icons linking to their social media accounts they also have a horizontal strip

of their videos linked to YouTube and another strip with previews of their latest tweets when

you scroll further down their homepage

Simple and clear fonts used for titles of pages and titles match their album titles

on their albums

SIGMA (same genre as Sigala)Whole page dedicated to their tour with the

writing in bright colours and a clear font so that it stands out against plain black background

All of the heading titles are the same through the whole website

Subscription bar and links to social media in the footer of every page to promote all their

music/tours

DISCLOSURE (same genre as Sigala)Disclosure logo on top of

homepage in same logo as on all of their albums

Each large image square, when hovered over, takes you to one of the pages on the website (blog, music, photos, live

dates, store and videos)

Banner of music video that gets updated when a new single get’s released

Simple and effective music page where each music video is kept within a ‘polaroid’ like rectangle with links to Facebook and

Twitter beneath

WILKINSON (same genre as Sigala)

Main banner on homepage with image of Wilkinson himself promoting his latest album

Permanent social media icons on top right of banner

Latest Wilkinson ‘news’ all on homepage of his website contained within poster like boxes with captions

Bizarrely all of Wilkinson’s pages are all on the same page, meaning you

can scroll down and view everything (except from store and contact which

open onto a completely separate page)

All tour dates listed clearly with links to where you can buy

tickets

COMMON FEATURES• Social media links on main heading bar/side bar• Average number of pages = 6 (homepage, live/tour, music, gallery,

news, contact)• Consistent fonts and colours for headings• White or black background with bright text colours• Regularly updated to reflect general look of their latest album