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One of the websites I have chosen to analyse is Paramore's website, which can be seen above or located at http://www.paramore.net.
One thing that is immediately noticeable about this particular website is the sheer proliferation of content available for fans to engage with. From the top down it contains the band's name, a navigation bar, an advertisement banner (white box at the top, my browser's ad blocker hides the actual ad), an embedded video, a cropped version of the album front cover, a mobile stream of things that the band regular submit to the sit via their smartphones, an embedded twitter feed, multiple sign up links to join the Paramore community, a section for blog posts from the band, a merchandise section, a list of live shows they will be performing in the near future, an activity feed detailing when a member of the community comments on something, a video area, a section for Paramore's global news, a section detailing what the members of the Paramore Fan Club are doing, a banner advertising Hayley Williams personal tumblr blog, a full site map and links to other social networking sites.
Rather than analysing each and every one of these features, it can be explained by the term Web 2.0, this is where websites fully integrate themselves with user generated content as is visible in this website. There is so much for a Paramore fan to interact with however to new/casual fans of Paramore, this may be entirely too much content and might bombard them with everything they could do so then they end up doing nothing and leaving the site. Although this site is very intriguing and extremely well designed, I wouldn't want to emulate it myself for the above reason.
One thing to also say about the design of the album is that there is a definite in house theme between this website and the design for Paramore's latest album, "brand new eyes," which is definitely something I want to have in my own website design.
One of the websites I have chosen to analyse is Paramore's website, which can be seen above or located at http://www.paramore.net.
One thing that is immediately noticeable about this particular website is the sheer proliferation of content available for fans to engage with. From the top down it contains the band's name, a navigation bar, an advertisement banner (white box at the top, my browser's ad blocker hides the actual ad), an embedded video, a cropped version of the album front cover, a mobile stream of things that the band regular submit to the sit via their smartphones, an embedded twitter feed, multiple sign up links to join the Paramore community, a section for blog posts from the band, a merchandise section, a list of live shows they will be performing in the near future, an activity feed detailing when a member of the community comments on something, a video area, a section for Paramore's global news, a section detailing what the members of the Paramore Fan Club are doing, a banner advertising Hayley Williams personal tumblr blog, a full site map and links to other social networking sites.
Rather than analysing each and every one of these features, it can be explained by the term Web 2.0, this is where websites fully integrate themselves with user generated content as is visible in this website. There is so much for a Paramore fan to interact with however to new/casual fans of Paramore, this may be entirely too much content and might bombard them with everything they could do so then they end up doing nothing and leaving the site. Although this site is very intriguing and extremely well designed, I wouldn't want to emulate it myself for the above reason.
One thing to also say about the design of the album is that there is a definite in house theme between this website and the design for Paramore's latest album, "brand new eyes," which is definitely something I want to have in my own website design.