Wednesday, 6 June 2007

Designing the website and writing the bio



I started by looking at lots of other girl band's websites and also looked at lots of pages on myspace. Reading the blurbs about the bands on their sites all seemed to merge into one, it was like reading the same thing over and over again. I decided to cut and paste different parts of different blurbs into one to create Diamante's blurb. The rest I just made up, I decided to sell us as an international girl band as each of us were born in different parts of the world, I think this would have been played on if we were a real girl band.

I did rush the design of the Diamante website as I wanted to upload it as soon as possible. I kept it very simple and only used black and white as wanted more attention to be payed to the images, as I had seen on other girl band sites.

I made an About Us page, a News page, Diamante Fashion page were you could order a Diamante fashion catalogue were you could buy exclusive Diamante t-shirts. I also made a gallery and contact page. I completed the site in two days, this did not include the time to photoshop the images.
Go to http://www.obstacle3.com/diamante to view Diamante's website
Jame N had some free space on his site and said that I could use it, I decide to call our record label Obstacle3music in case anyone got confused by the web address or sussed out that we were fake.
I also created a myspace page were I have only used images of the band, there's no music on it, I thought that this would be a good way to see if the industry is all about looks, I wanted to see how much interest we would get without any music.

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