Post 8: My Website Homepage

Inspirations for my homepage 

Initial sketch of website homepage

I found that by drawing an initial sketch of the home page, this helped me picture how I wanted my homepage to look whilst drawing inspiration from other artists' home pages. I plan on including common features, such as the social media bar, menu bar, artist's name and the music video, to list a few.

Final Product (Homepage)

A lightbox would pop up when the audience spends 2 or more seconds on the home page of the website. This encourages the audience to sign up to the newsletter in order to stay up to date with events or competition regarding the artist. 

This is the top bit of the homepage where the artist branding is seen in the top left corner. The menu bars lies across the top middle of the page, which allows for easy access tp each section (only the News tab takes you to the 2nd linked page). On the top right, I placed the social media links, which if clicked on, would take the audience to the official Twitter, Instagram or Youtube Page. 

As the audience scrolls further down, they are able to see the title of the latest single as well as the official music video, which further encourages the audience to watch the music video. 

Below the music video will be a small news feed section, which is kept up to date about information of the artist. This is so the audience can find out who the artist is and if interested, click on the link which takes the audience to the full article.

The next section includes information to do with "upcoming tours", which tells the audience information about where and when his next tours will take place and if they wish to buy tickets, the ticket button is linked to tickermaster.com where the audience are able to buy tickets. 

The final part of the home page includes the behind the scenes blooper video and quick access to the artist's instagram page where the audience can directly like or comment on the posts. In the footerm there is another prompt, urging the audience to join the newsletter and is in the same theme as the lightbox that pops up, therefore keeping the website consistent. It also informs the audience that the artist is signed under the Universal Music Group.