Devotion magazine website

I have created a website for my music magazine 'Devotion', using photoshop.This is in order to help me achieve a positive grade towards my magazine planning and development. Additionally, i have used features on my magazine page, which apply to official magazine web pages.

To begin with, i have created a black and white colour scheme so that it shows a traditional theme. Although, the quality of the images is increased using the black and white filter. In this case, i have used this idea to make my images show quality and appeal to my audience. Therefore, it also creates a modern theme as well.

The title is bold and the colour of the 'grey background' and the white 'Devotion' font contrasts well, making it stand out and be a main focus. Furthermore, i have used a font that is interesting and suits the 'urban' style of my music magazine. next to the main title/ heading, i have decided to include a jpeg image of my music magazine front cover. This feature is an advertisement and persuades my target audience who look at the web page to read the latest magazine from 'Devotion'.

The drop down list is a feature which is used on nearly every magazine website, such as 'Vibe magazine', 'Q magazine and more. The purpose of this is to navigate particular areas of the music magazine using this list and making it easy for the audience to look at particular areas of the website.

Below is an example of the drop down list which i took from 'Vibe magazine's' website.

Also, i took the lined background affect from vibe's website because it is unusual and allows your text to stand out.

I placed the text, ' Music' with an ellipses and 'what's new' on this background as a subheading. Therefore, it will attract my audience into reading it and be a persuasive technique.

I have included phrases and quotes, such as '2016' which show the audience that the website has recently been updated and there is new gossip.

The navigation arrows are so the audience can flick through different images. These are the arrows at either side of the main image...

The images i used are of celebrites, again in a black and white affect theme. However, i used an image from my music magazine photoshoot at Sunderland university, as a main image. This is noticeable because it is larger than the other images used on the web page. Below is the original and edited main image.