The Website

One of the requirements for the course is to create a website promoting the band. We kept with our theme of Gothic Fantasy, specifically looking at the 'damsel in the distress' idea. As neither of us had ever created a website before, we had to learn the technical sides before we could bring our ideas to life. We were introduced and developed our skills through the Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Fireworks packages.

After having grasped the concepts introduced to us through the packages mentioned above, we were able to develop our ideas to make them fitting to the theme we were following and we were able to indulge in our creative skills in order to produce an appealing website.

We looked at Avril Lavigne's website: http://home.avrillavigne.com/ since we felt her image and voice most suited our artists. At first we designed our website as below:

Our problem with this was that it became to simplistic and didn't leave us enough creative possibilities and so we added our fire breathing dragon and the tower. We felt that all this together made the page too crowded and we wouldn't be able to add anything without making it a mess. By overcrowding the website it would make it unappealing to an audience as it would be too difficult to look at.

Our final result:

meant that we were successful in creating a website that followed our colour scheme of black and pink as well as following our Gothic fantasy theme. Fantasy was a clear and obvious theme for our artist and through our knowledge of the Gothic through our Literature lessons alongside what we had imagined our artists may be thinking when they wrote the song. Although the image above is not the complete website, we saw this is a good basis that would allow us to include more detail about our artist without overcrowding the page.

To create the dragon and the tower, we researched Gothic towers, looking at Rapunzel in particular. We chose the tower that mostly said 'Gothic' to us and put a picture of our protagonist in the top to illustrate the damsel idea. Likewise, we looked at various dragon images and then adapted the one we thought was most fitting and made it follow the colour scheme we wanted. We would like to make the fire move using flash to animate our website. We already started this idea of animation by embossing the dragon and tower so that they look like they are slightly coming off the page.