Construction- Website Final Design

https://hannahcannellx.wixsite.com/mayahartmusic

There isn’t much change from my draft website design to my final website shown above. This is because I felt that the original website was very detailed and fit the image of my artist. However, there was some small changes made to make the website look more professional and interesting.

The original webpage opened to a photograph of the artist. This photograph was a simple ‘selfie’ of my artist using a direct mode of address making the viewers feel a sense of love and welcomeness. After evaluating my first draft, I felt that this image was too boring alone and didn’t create the “wow” factor I wanted my website to create from the first look. So instead I went to take more images of my artist and create a small montage of 4 images. These images show the artist to have a fancy and fun life with the top two picture, yet presents an ordinary girl in the bottom two.

I then decided to add movements to my pictures and titles. The first picture on the top left uses the animation of “glide-in”, the top right uses

“expand-in”, the bottom left uses “reveal” and lastly the bottom right uses “turn in”. These animations make the website more active and attention grabs the audience as soon as they turn onto the site. I then made my titles on my front page “float in” so that when the audience scroll down they appear one by one.

My next change was on my last page, “Behind the scenes”. This page shows a bloopers video and photos of the music video. However,  added to my final edit the final video of “Sue Me “ and the preliminary task video.

I believe my website is consistent and presents the image of my artist very well. This pink theme is seen on every page, highlighting the intertextuality of Legally Blonde and Mean Girls “on Wednesdays we wear pink”

This intertextuality is also seen in my “Latest Merch”. I made these images on photoshop, by quick selecting my logo and pasting onto plain images of clothes and iphone cases. I then would pick fonts to make the “Sue Me” look like that “Belinda” font in the website and video. When adding these products to my site, I wanted to highlight that they were unisex, even though they were pink- and to have them available in a variety of sizes. The reason I wanted to shoe that the products were unisex was to present how the stereotype of pink being a ‘girls colours’ is wrong and that the colour theory of pink is the colour of universal love of oneself and of others, representing friendship, affection, harmony, inner peace, and approachability.