Right this is a webpage I analysised ages ago along with several others, before even starting mine and it did give me some ideas which I included in my webpage. I have since been back to the webpage and analysed it in more detail so I can use it as one of my two full analyses. Right so I will start at the top and work my way down.
The first thing at the top of the webpage is a band photo. A artist photo or an image associated with a artist is very conventional at the top of most music webpages. Next to the band photo is a MP3 store where fans can buy songs from the site. This, from what I can gather is quite rare, generally if you want to buy MP3s you have to follow links to sites like Amazon, Play or the giant that is iTunes. Looking at the price of the MP3s they also undercut iTunes. It also means more money goes to the record company and the band compared to selling through iTunes, just simply theres less people to share the profits with and iTunes takes most of the profit on sales anyway. This has obviously been thought up and included by the record company.
The next thing down is the banner (articles, band, events, media, community and store). These are pretty common banner titles, there is some variances on different artist webpages but they fundamentally mean the same things, for example events vs tour. Also at this point the layout of the webpage becomes apparent.
The website from this point is seperated into 3 columns, two smaller ones each side with a larger one in the middle, again a convention not just of music webpages but webpages in general. In the left hand column they have the following titles; tour dates, latest videos and search. Under tour dates it shows there next couple of gigs, under the latest videos it has their most recent music video and under search it just has a search box. In the left column they have the following titles; latest uploads, login here and member updates. Under latest uploads they have the latest fan images uploaded, under the login they have the typical username and email login boxes. Finally under the member updates it has how many members the site has, how many of those are logged in and how many other people are viewing the website as a whole within the last few minutes. Then it has a list of the members logged in and finally under that they have the most recent fan comments. Again all very general and conventional.
In the middle there are several news stories with not just the title but the actual articles aswell, however in some cases due to the length at the end it says view more as the whole story doesn't fit. These stories are dated and show a link to the comments on them. Again all conventional. Then under the latest articles as they call them (ie recent news stories) nearly right at the bottom of the page they have a area called appearances. Depending on when you look at this depends on whats underneath. Quite often it says 'No items found. There are no upcoming TV appearances or media events.' Right at the bottom it has some copyright information; who created the site, the copyright of the site, and the privacy policy and terms and conditions links.
Overall then the website is pretty simple as websites go, but it does its job well and because its simple it's very easy to navigate and pleasant to use.
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