The first website that I researched was infact the real website for Celldweller.
http://www.celldweller.com/site/
Important elements to notice about the webstie:
- Due to his futuristic music style, everything has a neon glow to it. Most noticeably, almost all of the type on the website. Not only was this futuristic and made it link more to the electronic genre, but it also just gave the type more depth to it. It made it more interesting to look at.
- One of the most important elements of this website was the background. The website has been moved off to one side to allow the two characters to show. These two characters are infact Celldweller himself and Klayton. In addition to the glow on the typography, there was also the same blue glow on the costumes of the models.
- The background also featured something similar to the album cover, it had a space setting with bright stars and a very futuristic looking city scape.
- When it comes to the different elements of the website, it has multiple links at the top including the name of the artist in a very large and legible font. In addition to the page links, social media links are also included.
http://www.nervoustestpilot.co.uk/
Important elements to notice about the website:
- It is clear to see that when compared to the website of celldweller, this website is much lower budget and probably no budget. All the elements are very simply laid out and nothing seems spectacularly designed. However this is not a negative point about the site. This means that everything is very obviously laid out and easy to see.
- The name of the artist is at the top of the page. This means that it is the first part to load and makes it look as if he is the creator of everything underneath, which he clearly is. Also, the green colour of it relates to the other green title text. This neon green colour is reminiscent of some sort of "terminal" command for a computer, therefore implying that he makes electronic music.
- The more important information for the artist is all on the homepage. It gives information of who he is, what he does, what his record label is and what sort of music he makes. There is still many tabs however that give more indepth information to the different areas.
- There isnt a background for this website, it is just a plain black square. This may mean something, but in my opinion it makes the website a lot more boring and less visually appealing.
The third and final website I look at was that of Linkin Park:
http://www.linkinpark.com/
Important elements to notice about the website:
- Out of the three websties, this one looks the most professional and finished as everything is obvious, everything works and there are no unnecessary features.
- The typography of this website works very well. There is no glow to anything in it. It looks more like a business site than a quickly designed site such as the site for nervous testpilot. In addition to this, the type is all white, black or grey. having colours always makes something looks slightly less professional. Having desaturated colours shows the seriousness of the band.
- Everything on the site is set up in a rectangular formation. All the information is in blocks of different sizes and because if this it links up a lot better than if it were in different positions.
- Due to the popularity of the band, there is no need for any image of them on the background. For this site it is just a grey gradient. Unlike the nervous tespilot site, the reason for a cleaner background is so it does not distract from the important information on the centre of the page.
- Almost everything is acessable from the homepage, most noticeably the homepage contains the news for the band. I like this idea as it makes it seem more regularly updated.
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