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WEBSITE RESEARCH

By Natasha Warr

The purpose of a website is to find out information, so in the sense of the music industry there would be information about the band, their upcoming tours, the price of the tickets and where to access the tickets.  Due to our song being an Arctic Monkeys song, we felt it was appropriate to look at their wesbite for ideas.  

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When looking at teir website, we found that there were various different aspects that gave information about the band, these were: 

- Home Page 

- News

- Gigs 

- Photos 

- Videos

- Releases 

- Fans Forum 

- Sign Up

- Members

- Store 

After we looked at the Arctic Monkeys website, we asked 8 people what they would expect to see on a wesbite for a band, the responses are below.  

ONE REPUBLIC 

They have images of the band performing across their home page, with the links to social media sites on a banner near the bottom so people can easily access their pages.  

THE KOOKS

They have a promotional test on the home page for their new album and information about where the fans can access this from, this entices the fans to buy the album.  They alsop have the social media links on their home page in the top right corner so they are easily accesible.  

THE KILLERS

They have a promotional image with the link to their newest video which promotes the video as well.  

THE 1975

They have a different website to the other bands, it is very simplistic.  Despite this, it still contains the vital information of the new album, and links to buy the CD, Vinyl, iTunes or links to merchandise.  

After researching different websites, we decided that we would include the following aspects in our website:

- Home page with a link to the latest video

- Video page with the latest video

- Latest news page about upcoming tours, music and videos

- About page with information about the band

- Music page with links to more music from the band 

- Tour page with tour dates 

- Store page to include merchandise of the band 

- Contact page 

Once we had decided we were going to do a merchandise page, we had to decide what kind of merchandise we wanted.  We decided on t-shirts as these were usually the most popular merchandie to be sold, but we also decided on a mug and a beanie hat.  I then created the merchandise that would be shown on our website.  

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