Sleeping Serenity's First Draft of the Website

First draft:

This is the first draft of the home page. It includes the bands logo and name at the top which is linked to always appear on the top of the website and it will always take you to the home page. Then there are sub titles/links which change colour as the cursor is over it. These links are "Home", "Info", "Gallery", "Music" and "Tour". 

Below the links there is a slide show which at the moment contains/advertises the link to a story that is in the "Latest News"section and a link to the "Tour" page which advertises their upcoming performance. 

At the footer of the page it includes a small copyright phrase and the link/button to get to the band's Facebook page which always appear regardless on which section of the page you are.

When the cursor is over the "Info" sub link, a drop down bar shows and the options "biography" and "latest news" appear. When the "Info" sub link is clicked the page on the top right appears. I wanted this page not to be there so that one could just choose between either of the drop down options but unfortunately that isn't possible. Therefor when the info page is clicked i just put two links as text which will lead them to the drop down option as i have no other idea or use for just the info page. For it to not be that bland i added a picture of the band to relate everything together.
I have not yet edited all the texts, i have only made a rough guideline for me to fill in everything in time.

This is the "Gallery" page. Once you click on the "Gallery" sub link you get to this page. This contains pictures taken by a professional photographer (which i got permission from to include these in the website) at the band's concert at the last Rocks Green. When the pictures are clicked they enlarge in order to get a better look at them. Below all the pictures i have advertised the photographer and included his Twitter and Facebook link. 

When "Music" is clicked, it takes you to this page. Here i have included videos from the band performing at one of their previous concerts.  I have left the first one empty as i have not yet finished my music video completely and that's where it is supposed to go.

This is the page that you will get to when clicking on the "Tour" sub link. This contains information about their next gigs and links to the school (the venue of the concert) and again i put the link of the band to encourage people visiting this page to follow the band for more updates.

Comments:

I think that a few obvious things need changing. And some things are good.

• For the slide show in the home page i think the pictures need a bit of changing as they aren't that nice to look at, i think that maybe just text with a small picture would work much better.
• The home page itself is simple, which is good. But it almost seems too simple. Therefore i feel that it from my research i could take the sign up feature which would give the fans a way to further communicate and keep up to date with the band. Obviously for this media project it will only be visually, but should the band choose to use this design, this feature would actually be activated.
• I also noticed that as i had the cursor on the image/link for their upcoming performance, the title of the image appears. I will have to delete that.
• I think that the whole of the info section does look good. Therefore i intend to keep it this way, however i will obviously add information/text.
• I also think that the Gallery section is good, however i think that i might add the link to the photographer's actual webpage too.
• I feel that the "Music" section looks good. However i feel that maybe i should include links (again, not actually activated yet) to where the song could be bought digitally or the actual hard copy of the CD.
• The "Tour" section does look a bit bland. However there are no more concerts that this band will have (that they know of) so for this media project i think that i will make up some appearances to show how the page would look if it actually were to be launched for this band.
• I feel that all the links i have included for promotion to the band, the photographer and the school give this website more credibility. 

Some of these features will be "fake" for the purpose of appearance. Because this website is supposed to show how it would look if this website would actually be officially launched for the band.