For my introductory website, I used the dark portfolio html design template from w3schools.com. I decided to use my band, Woozle, as the main focus for the website as it is a large part of my identity. Assembling a group of musicians along with a strong supporting team for Woozle has been a dream of mine since I was 10 years old and I finally found the group of people needed for this vision in Nashville, and specifically through Belmont. My vision for the website was to have a simple and easy to follow design with “about”, “contact”, and “media” pages. This is not an idea for an official Woozle website, but more of an introductory website for the band so that viewers can see who we are and what we are about.
The “home” page includes Woozle as the title of the website along with a quote by southern rock/blues legend, Tinsley Ellis. I chose this quote because it is bold in it’s statement and it is from a reliable trusted source. The quote is also an external link to a recent jam Woozle played that I am rather proud of. I included this link to act as a “here is why” response to the quote - “Woozle is the most promising jam band since Widespread Panic” and here is a video to prove it. Under the title and quote sits our official band logo. I was not sure how the logo against black background would look, but I like the harsh contrast between the photo and background. It helps the viewer to focus in on all the details of the complex logo. I used our official EPK (electronic-press-kit) biography for the “About” page. The biography accurately sums up our progress as a band so far. The “About” page includes an external link titled “A Woozle Is Very Confusel.” This link takes the viewer to youtube for an excerpt from the Winnie The Pooh movie titled “Heffalumps and Woozles.” While the band did not choose the name based on the character (We chose the name after reading about the Woozle Effect), we did adopt the character as our official mascot (see woozle logo). The “photos” section uses three live photos of the band. The first photo is of a recent show we played at a fairly well known outdoor-hippie festival in Muscle Shoals, Alabama known as Joestock Jubilee. It portrays the psychedelic hippie-jam-band aesthetic of the band with the Joestock decorations in the background. The second photo was used to portray our DIY house-shows we throw every month and how Woozle provides a fun and appealing high energy experience through our live shows. I included the third photo because unlike the first and second photos, it portrays the band in a classic professional setting on an inside stage with professional lighting and audio. The final page on the website is a “Contact” page. This page includes the current location we operate from, my personal phone number, and the band’s official email. Using a template was helpful because it allowed me to bypass the most time consuming part of building the website which is setting up the parameters and styles from scratch. I am a visual learner and learn a lot more by trial and error. I have a difficult time understanding HTML resources as I am not well versed in the vocabulary, but the templates allowed me to make changes and understand what works without threatening the progress I had already made. I originally tried to start from scratch which made the project seem too daunting and overcomplicated.
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