Question One.

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Website creation for the band.

For the promotion of our band we have to make a website. I decided to stick to the 'boyband' image except give them more of an urban/rock look rather than a 'cheesy pop' image.
By doing this, the background of a concert gives it a 'party' theme instead of using bold and plain backgrounds. I also used a more grown-up font rather than a funky looking font. This way I can attract the best audiences for the band and also audiences who are most likely to listen to the band's music.
I have included pages that I have found in my website research. This included information about the artist, tour dates and merchandise. This has helped me in doing the layout for my website. I have made a few changes such as layout of the 'about name' and the name of the band itself.



I have made quite a few changes to the website in order to get the best audience group and keep the fans satisfied and up to date with what the band is up to. The images used also stick to the 'urban' image of the band which includes graffiti and concerts.
To make the band seem popular, I have added a news feed for twitter and added more tour dates to increase the popular demand of tickets.

Social networking.

In order for us to promote our artist effectively, we would have to create a Twitter and Facebook page, this way we can promote the artist through viral marketing. By means the artist will be noticed more as people will talk about the artist by means it is successful in being promoted. This will also be a good benefit for the website which will have links to the Facebook and Twitter pages. This way fans can keep up to date with what the artist is up to and can share it socially with other people.

Website research two.

This is my Perezi under the name 'anne media35'.

Website Research One.

This is my prezi under the name 'anne media35.'

Planning a website.

Eye-tracking for website research.

After some research, I have discovered that according to Eyetracking visualisations, users tend to read webpages in a F-shaped pattern; with two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe. This is by users looking at the upper part of the content area then looking down the page, covering a shorter area. Then they finally scan the content's left side of the website. Here the red shows the most viewed areas whilst th blue shows the least viewd areas.

This helps to follow guidlines in making a website, as a way of atrracted wide audiences. Users won't read texts on websited by word-to-word and lengthly reading would be very rare. Keeping a good balence of information would be good as some readers may read a lot but most won't. To maintain this balence, the first couple of paragraphs should state the most essential information. Although users would read most of the information in paragraph one, they won't read as much in the second paragraph. Because of this, it may be best to use sub-headings, short paragraphs and bullet points to make the information easy and quick to read.