This a photobucket album that compiles every incarnation of our website, mostly from our homepage designs and finished works but also a few from other areas of the website to demonstrate how it expanded. Similar to our digipak album, one can see the continuous development of our website and undertake the journey we went through to create the final website (which we are extremely proud of).
Looking at the initial sketch of our homepage, it's evident that we always had a solid idea of what we wanted the website to look like. The centrepiece was initially going to be a simple picture of Nicholas Alexander (which made it's way into first basic design on wix) but was soon changed into the album cover as we decided than an artist's main priority is knowledge of the album and spreading it through word of mouth. We decided to reinforce this concept of album knowledge by making it the focal point of the entire website, away from our original design.
Our sketch also encompassed some longer lasting elements of our website, such as the presence of all the pages of the website as a header on the website. The links present in the sketch are extremely reminiscent of the ones in the final design (aside from a few additional pages) demonstrating that this part of the website underwent little change throughout the journey. Furthermore, the sketch also has a twitter feed on the left side, indicating that were always going to integrate social media a large part of the website. We took this idea even further by adding even more social media alongside twitter, such as youtube, facebook and instagram.
Further incremental developments through the website journey demonstrated through the album include the many changing of backgrounds (some because of Thinking Out Loud, some because we had better ideas). We had atleast four different backgrounds before deciding on our final one, encapsulating the struggle we went through it terms of choosing a background that fit Nicholas Alexander's image.
Overall, the website journey was extremely similar to the one undertaken whilst creating our digipak, a very humbling one when looking back at our initial and questionable designs.