website research

Before we start designing our website, i need to research a few websites in the genre of Ska. From this i will gather a list of codes and conventions of Ska band websites in order to make our own website look as professional as possible. 

Madness's website is not as playful as their music. It has a more serious and information based feel to it. Their website includes a gallery of their images, links to their social media bases, a store to purchase merchandise and a news blog along with some other pages. Their colour scheme is quite basic, with the main focus of colour being in the images of the band performing live. The colour yellow features as the font colour, making it stand out from the fairly dark background of the photographs. 

The website for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones is very different from Madness's. This is a much more colourful website which features very bold colours such as blue, red and white on their home page. Each of their different pages has a different colour scheme, which distinguishes them from each other in an interesting way. There is also an illustrated depiction of the band members, which is an aspect which we are hoping to feature across all of our platforms as a band. 

The specials' website has the sort of theme that we will be most inspired by when designing our own website. It has a black and white colour scheme, which would go perfectly with our music video colour scheme. Their merchandise page consists mostly of t shirts, with the band's monotone colour scheme and their band logo.