R+P Post 23: Planning my web pages

After doing a wide range of research, across a number of different genres, I feel confident that I understand the key conventions of artist websites, particular from the rock genre and I feel ready and capable to begin drafting our pages.

Initially myself and Shayam began sketching out some rough flat plans on paper, however I felt that although useful as a first draft, creating computer generated visual designs would be much more helpful when referring back during production.

Through our individual research we had both noticed that using a banner at the top for the key pages is the most common and actually the most effective form of navigation. Below I have created a diagram of my key influences for this style of layout.

Overall, I am very happy with our planned web pages. Each page is full of relevant content and we have a reason and a reference behind each choice. This should mean that producing our website will be fairly straight forward and we will be able to produce a well thought out, effective, usable and professional site.