Question 6
The document discusses the design of the author's music magazine website. It begins with an outline of the homepage, which includes a navigation bar, 3 main articles updated daily, a YouTube video related to the articles, and a slideshow of pictures. It then provides an outline of interior pages, which maintain consistent navigation and formatting. The author expresses dissatisfaction with the website builder used and limitations it imposed. An ideal homepage design is proposed with additional interactive features like embedded tweets, a music player, and options to purchase issues or tickets. Interior pages could include ads, better formatting, and social sharing/comments. In the end, the author likes the consistent house style and easy to use design of the current site.
Question 6
- 1. 6) How do you feel your website design conforms to the conventions of your chosen genre and brand identity?
- 2. Brief out line of my website home page Navigation bar on right hand side click them to get to the page 3 main articles will be up dated through out the day A YouTube video relevant to the article A slide show of pictures relevant such as bands performing, festivals, album covers Home button click to get back to home screen
- 3. Brief outline of a page on my website Navigation bar always in same place- easy to find Home button always in same place- easy to find Top half of website remains the same establishing house style Article with pictures
- 4. Problems I really didn¡¯t like using weebly it was very limited and I feel I missed out lots of good things I could have put on my websites because of it, I would not use it again. The website would be vital to my magazine as I think with the growing rise of people ¡®living¡¯ on the internet everything is expected to be instantly assessable. And with out the website platform my magazine would not survive. This isn¡¯t excusive to my magazine it applies to any magazine on the market or if on a wider scale anything in demand; a new sop opening, new caf¨¦ needs an internet and social media plat form to hold it up especially if its aimed at a teen or young audience.
- 5. How I would have ideally had my home page this is if I had the time, and skills to produce this Navigation bar that when you hover over each opinion a drop down menu gives more opinions under each heading More articles featured and sectioned out under headings like news. A twitter feed imbedded in that follows any tweets with magazine hash tag in. A little box by each slid show picture with a band name or article name that you click on and goes straight to it Home button my magazine logo, tying it together. A music player you can play songs featured in this weeks issue An option to buy a online version on that weeks issue
- 6. An example of an ideal page layout A poster or advert to promote the band featured in the page for example this page could have an arctic monkeys tour poster on it, and when clicked on sends you where you can buy tickets Option at the bottom to tweet, or share article on facebook Better fonts and head lines, at the moment it¡¯s a bit plain. Article in columns like in a magazineA comment section at the bottom that any one can comment about the article and interact with others like forum style
- 7. Likes about current website All though I was frustrated at what I couldn¡¯t put and link on to my website I do like ? The house style the colours and images tie in with the print version ? I feel I have targeted the audience well, nothing to serious or overwhelming. It fairly simple and easy to look at ? The way I put in the YouTube video a teen audience is stereotypically lazy if they had to go looking for the clip they might just ignore the article all together