Evaluation update ...

I have been trying to upload our completed evaluation for the last couple days, but it wont let me upload it!! Sorry for the inconvenience, I will keep trying!

Our Website

www.wix.com/danniixx/thesummerset

Our website is finished and published!

This is our home page. We picked the background as it didn't have bright colours (like some of the others) and looked more 'rural' and indie which reflected our themas. The overall rough/tatty looks at the edges and the flicker transition between pages again reflects this 'old school' feel. We liked the pictures that came with Wix of the sun setting as it obviously reflects our bands name. So we got a good picture of our band and edited it black and white to go with these two on the home page. This then made the red "The Summer Set" stand out more. On the side we have our different pages that link to the pages. At the bottom we have 3 symbols (Facebook, Twitter and Myspace) these show synergy and actually link directly to the real summer sets pages. These 3 links stay on each page as I thought that different things (eg- pictures) may influence people to then want to add The Summer Set on any of these social networking sites and saves them having to find the links again.

Our about page describes when the band got together and how. It explains here that they all live in the rural county of Suffolk and therefore reflects not only there music but the rural imagery shown in their music video and pictures ect. It also gives a small bio/background on each of the band members.

The music page is written in the sense that the band are asking people to listen to their music. It makes it more personal and individual which will appeal to people as they realise they are a relatively small band. Free stuff was something that our audience feedback suggested would entice them to visit a bands website. Therefore we have a free download of an acoustic version of there single. We have a playlist where people can listen to both songs fully. We then have a link of synergy whereby people can click directly onto the iTunes logo and it takes them to the iTunes page. (It actually takes us to the real summer sets album on iTunes.)

Again, to persuade people to seeing the band on tour its written from the bands point of view. We added some cool pictures/effects found on Wix of postal stamps. We overlapped them over each other and a picture of a sun/country setting. The postal stamps reflect the idea of them traveling.

On the gallery we have 4 pictures showing and then have a drag bar that shows you another 4 ect. You can also click on the pictures to make them bigger and see them individually. We took a range of photos of our band. From individual head shots, individual posed, group posed and the group having fun. We then edited them on photoshop to make them black and white or make brighter ect. The red comes in again as I got an arrow that fitted the theme we were going with and then changed the colour to the same as the text on previous pages.

The red, again, is shown around the video screen that I picked and changed the colour to. I then embedded our videos from youtube after I had uploaded a quite good quality version to my account. The post-stick note on the side also has a link attached that sends people to my youtube account, if they wish to view the videos bigger.

I made the merchandise using a website and then took the images and uploaded them into a photo gallery (the same as on our gallery page). The merchandise gives a price underneath and the 'buy now' button just takes people to Amazon (supposedly if a real band they would have these products on Amazon!)

Finally a contact page is very common on bands websites and therefore why we have one, so fans feel they can contact the band or the record label. Again to end the website with (like how we started) with a couple pictures of the sun setting.