Website Research

The Good Charlotte website has:

Site menus, links to:
Band Members
Tours
Band gigs
Behind the scenes
Media (photos, videos)
Forum
Store
Links to:
iTunes, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Myspace
Incudes GC iPhone app.
Samples of tracks
Band blog, music video
The typeface for the band name is Old English Text, with the typeface for the rest of the page something simple like "Futura".




(play video for website)
The Papa Roach website has basically the same features of the previous website, with their name on their latest album cover as their banner.
The site includes the band blog, facebook, myspace, tumblr, youtube, but no itunes.
The typeface for the previous band titles was quite gothic, and fitted with the GC font. This title, however, is more futuristic.


Again, for the Linkin Park website, are the tabs: Blog, Tour, Music, Videos, Photos, Community, and Store. Interestingly, there is a last tab for purchasing their newest album.
The website has Linkin Park's signature typeface, with their official logo next to the tabs. To the right of the Linkin Park text, there is an advert for LPU12 (Linkin Park Underground 2012). LPU is Linkin Park's fan group. The advert changes to an advert for the latest album (Living Things).

This is a screenshot of the Muse website and this one appears to have a tool bar at the top right and this gives you the option to select the language in which you would like to view the website. The name of the band is found at the top left of the main page and directly beneath this are details of their latest tour. The main page has buttons to such things as news, tour dates, images, map, forum, shop etc and this is typical of the websites that I have looked at. This website has the 360 app for the iphone and ipad and this is not always found on some of the other websites. The colours used on the websites are very dark and for the Muse and Papa Roach websites, are more developed in regimental and formal views. However, Good Charlotte still have a sort of Gothic appearance, very much like The Pretty Reckless, Black Stone Cherry, and Evanescence.

This website has all the necessities of the previous sites, and a similar layout. The band image is just below the band title, with two badges on the banner. Lastly, Simple Plan appear to have a charity that they run for young people in need.

Simple Plan have myspace, facebook, twitter, youtube, and "SP Crew"

This website has a similar layout, with the menu bar at the top, showing the basics, with a few added extras: i.e "Lyrics"
Visual link to the latest album "Hit Me Like a Man EP"
Name on top, in a gothic font, with the visual link below.
Band blog
Facebook, twitter, youtube, iTunes, myspace, buzznet.

This website again has similar layout, but with the menu bar fixed to the bottom of the screen. This goes slightly against what the other bands have done. The bar again has the basics, with a few extra tabs: Bio, Fanclub, Links, and E-News.
The advert for Evanescence's Spotify switches to the new album, with an image of the band, a new music video, the fanclub, and a new app available from the Appstore (Apple), android (Google), or Nokia.
The background remains static, while the media moves, very much like a blog function. The colours on the background probably back up the band as a sort of spiritual gothic feel. The font backs this up very strongly, by looking extremely gothic (curly and sharp).

The difference between the appearance of the fonts between Linkin Park and Evanescence, is if you imagine you have made their band name graphics in a metal workshop, Linkin Park are very more "We're this band, in this massive block capitals", and Evanescence would probably be a very delicate structure, that you could probably snap, but also really badly cut yourself before you do. This reflects the kind of music they produce.