Post-Production: Final updated Website

From lastly making some bold decisions and changes regarding our website, I have been constantly considering small details and finishing touches to making the website to the best of our potential. For example, after examining and exploring the site, we felt firstly felt the black opaque rectangle across the homepage didn’t look aesthetically pleasing and therefore looked random and so in addition to this, we removed it from the homepage. After removing the black rectangle box, we realised the four links, such as listen, tour, follow and sign-up were too big and therefore we decreased the size of each. Seeing as we created our GIF using GIPHY previous to this, we knew we wanted to swap it with our black and white primary GIF. After exchanging the GIF, the site started to feel as though it was coming together but we realised the marbled background came across too dark and so therefore we lightened it.  After being satisfied with the homepage, we moved onto developing and correcting each of the four links.

Firstly, we started with listen. As a group, we all appreciate and were fond of the pop up lightbox promoting SIOUX latest release and therefore wanted to keep that, however we did not appreciate the strong pink we had previously picked and therefore altered this to a faded tone of white. As well as this, we didn’t feel the marbled background was hugely effective and therefore we changed the background to a lighter, crisp and clean finish. After feeling pleased with the listen page, we altered the tour page. For example, we linked the artist, ‘Bishop Briggs’ with the app ‘Bandsintown’ and therefore immediately the page fell together as it was filled with information. However, we weren’t completely fond of the strong, distinct colours we had used for the first two rectangles and therefore darken them and turned down the opacity. As we progressed forward, we were happy with our changed results so far and knew we had to alter the page follow. We had previously inserted an instant newsletter sign-up for SIOUX using a lightbox, although Harvey and myself felt this newsletter could be a page on its own and therefore removed this lightbox from our page follow. Again, we removed the rectangular opaque black box as we felt it didn’t look complete with it. Lastly, we deleted the page about as we felt this was not needed and the page started looking to crammed with information and beneficially changed it to a sign-up page.

After making these changes, Harvey and I were fully satisfied with our final updated website and looked for final touches before we published it. Luckily, we didn’t find many but we wanted to change all the return buttons from the links back to the homepage to subtle black icons of a house, by doing this it made the website look more professional and stylish.  Similarly, we went through the website and made sure every letter was in the font Futura and the same colour of green was used throughout. This was crucial as it helped make our website look neat and clean as well corresponding with our other products.

Final finished update Website.

Although we are pleased with our finished website, we wanted to lastly examine how our website would look on numerous different browsers and screen sizes, to make sure it was correctly made. However, as we used the software Wix, it has its drawbacks and expectedly prevented some viewers from viewing our site correctly. Due to this, the video above shows what it looks like on an Apple MacBook and how it should be viewed as the site was created and constructed on an Apple MacBook. Therefore, any viewers wanting to explore our website for SIOUX, should be viewed on an Apple MacBook or at the least a laptop for best results.