Construction Post 6: Website post-production

To create our website, we used Wix which is a website creator/editor. The cloud based service allowed us to edit the site from anywhere which was particularly handy and the drag and drop nature of the website was very easy to pick up and use.

Our first decision was to decide which pages to put on the website. We mainly stuck to our flatplan here with a selection pages which were:

• Home
• News
• Media
• Store
• Live
• Bio
• Contact

We felt these pages entailed the majority of things expected on an EDM artist's website and after receiving feedback from some of the audience, were happy to proceed with these pages.

The header of our website

After creating the basic website, we sat down with some of our media teachers and spoke about what we felt was missing. First of all, it was agreed that we didn't have enough interactive content so we thought up an idea of a tour announcement video by Orlando. We also found that some of our photos of merchandise in the shop were blurry so we removed or replaced them. Our layout was good but essentially, we just needed to bulk up most of the pages a bit. Below is the video we came up with.

To bulk up our pages, we really emphasised the synergy of all our online marketing campaigns. Therefore, we added links to soundcloud, instagram, iTunes and more. 

The instagram feed on the media page

The social media links at the bottom of each pages

After this, we then asked for some real audience feedback about our website. They generally liked the website, especially our addition of the instagram feed and a signing event.

The signing event

However, a lot of them felt that an entry page was something they often saw and that the addition of it may add to the professionalism of the website. Therefore, we made an entry page in response to the feedback. It was very simple and simply required us to add in a button and link it yet it had a real impact on the standards of our website.

The wix editing options

Our final touches simply involved finishing up the website with some final touches to add to the realism of our site. This was mainly checking that all of our links were working and simply adding contact information etc. to the contact page, which is something that our audience feedback noticed on our website as some of the links weren't working. 

The social links editing option

Overall, I'd say that Wix offered an easy to use yet efficient website creating service which certainly made the creation of our website a lot smoother than it may have been if we used a different service. The constant feedback was really important for us to keep moving forward and the ease of Wix made it easy for us to turn the feedback into final results which definitely impacted on the professionalism of our final website.