Magazine website mock up.

This is a quick mock up of a website homepage for my music magazine. I used www.wix.com to make this and it would not be suitable for use as a final website as it is very simple however it is just a quick mock up.

The exclusives area is a slideshow of artists that will feature in this weeks issue of the magazine. This gives people an idea straight away of what genre the magazine will be and what artists will be featured so it helps them decide if they want to read it. The homepage has links to music , photos, news and blogs. The music page will have short parts of the interviews featured in the magazine which would make people buy the magazine to read the whole thing. It will also feature previews of songs by people featured in the magazine and info about tours by the artists featured. The photos page would have behind the scenes pictures of the photo shoot for the cover artist and pictures that the magazine has taken of tours and festivals. This would encourage people to buy the magazine so that they can read more about them. The news page will feature news about artists featured including new albums and singles and any events concerning them. This would get people more interested in certain artists and they would then buy the magazine to read interviews with them. The blogs page will have blogs by some of the main people involved in making the magazine so that people could see what it is like and would maybe gain some interest and buy the magazine.
This homepage has some of the conventions found in my magazine website research such as all of the links mentioned. It also has links to different social networks and you tube which shows the audience how accessible the website is. The homepage also features many suggestions to the audience of buying the print version such as " in this weeks issue ". If an alternative is offered online such as " read a profile online ", It would contain less information than the feature in the magazine which would make the audience want to buy the magazine so that they could read the full thing. A convention of a magazine website that this mock up doesn't have is a search bar. This would allow for easy access to some areas of the website that may be harder to find links to by searching what the audience wanted to find.