Construction Post 6: Website Post-Production

What we had to do:

Create a fully functional website for our artists.

Overall I am very happy with the final outcome of the website. I think we achieved exactly what we set out to and I feel it looks very professional and realistic. The Wix software was very convenient as it allowed us to edit the website without any prior knowledge of html or other programming languages.

What we wanted for our website

• Lots of interactive opportunities
• An online store
• Artist information

My contribution to the website

• I set up some of the tour page.
• Edited a lot of the record label contact page and artist information page (About Me)
• I also helped to decide the content for the shop.
• I also made the opportunites to interact with the artists in the form of the competions page

Audience Feedback

We to some members of our target audience to get their opinions of our website.

• They loved the large focal images of the artists on the various pages.
• They also liked the social media links, navigation bar and choice of pages. They felt everything felt very fluid and easily accessible similar to a real artist page. One thing they did say was that some of the links on some pages incorrectly redirected them. We fixed this by ensuring all links were working correctly.
• They also felt that although the pages were nice they could be more interactive, for example the "Info" page. We remedied this by adding a more interactive Q&A with "hover-to-reveal" answers.
• Teachers also said they liked the pages but we could use more brand links that would be suitable, we responded to this by adding a Beats tie-in competition, references to TV & radio appearances and a Nike collaboration.

Some of the problems we faced were:

• When setting us social media links, due to some inactivity in the accounts. We got suspended from twitter which meant that none of our twitter links were working. We managed to get around this by creating a new account and making sure to satisfy twitters terms and conditions.
• The content within the header was inconsistent on various pages meaning traversing the website was very disorientating. We were able to overcome this by creating one main header that we anted to run throughout the pages of the website and then making sure every page that was possible to visit was consistent with this ideal header.