Website Production

DREAMWEAVER

DREAMWEAVER 

Before starting to use Dreamweaver, I went onto youtube and searched for a few tutorials to try and teach me how to use it because it looked very complicated. Despite looking at this tutorial, I found that Dreamweaver wasn't very flexible and it was a lot more technical and harder to move things around the page etc. Making a site using Dreamweaver seemed to be a very long and daunting task so I looked at other website creators and found Wix.com.

I found Wix to be an excellent website designer, it allowed me to add images, links, Facebook 'Like' buttons, text and so much more by a few clicks. As oppose to Dreamweaver, I reckon I would have been there all day. 

Final Website, created on Wix
www.wix.com/zazax0/abbiesinger

This is a screen shot of my final website (More below when you scroll down). After looking at numerous existing sites I got an idea of a basic layout that I could use. I felt that the use of pictures of Abbie would be important because every site has pictures of the artist somewhere, and plus, people viewing this site would want to know what Abbie looks like and what kind of artist she is. This is where the 'About' section comes in where a brief bio of her has been written. The colours used all link to my CD digipak design so this has kept consistency throughout and also the turquoise-blue colour is viewed as calm and peaceful which links to the values and beliefs of what audiences see Neo-Soul as. The slideshow at the top of my website doesn't portray Abbie in a sexual way at all as they are not revealing. Abbie wants her musical talent to be the obvious aspect of her that everyone knows her for. This is also an important part of the Neo-Soul genre because typically, it is about expressing yourself and singing about life events etc as oppose to Hip Hop and RnB which may present artists in more revealing clothing and talk about more explicit things such as sex and girls.

After presenting this website to Abbie herself, I gained her feedback and friend's feedback who all said it was very good but could be tweaked in different areas. So Abbie suggested a change in font to make it more like someone had handwritten the text instead of using standard 'Arial'. So I took this on board and changed it on my site. Another thing Abbie pointed out is the navigation at the top of the page which should have buttons like 'Home' 'Profile' 'Music' etc, however I have had problems getting these to come up. I am currently working on it.