2. At first I was shocked to see such a poor website when compared to The
Killers, however remembering that the Pigeon Detectives are an indie band,
lacking the support of a major record label to produce a site, it instead makes
this an impressive feet to create an online presence given the limited money
or resources they have, and clearly reinforces the autonomous and do it
yourself attitude indie bands have.
The following website
convention wont be
analysed because
the site doesn’t have
them.
• Menu bar
• Images
• Music or music
video
• No memberships
3. Logo/ Banner Font style/ size/
colour
Like the killer website
there is very little text
to analyse to find any
connotations, as both
seem to try to use
more multimedia
instead to engage the
audience.
The audience will
usually look at the top
of page first so the
banner was placed in
the top middle of the
page so the audience
will see it first and
instantly recognize it as
the pigeon detectives
banner and website.
4. Background Suitable URL
The fact that there
background is just a plain
black with an black and
white image of the band
on stage, connotes there
music maybe a bit dark
and gloomy. Also the fact
there background
resembles those very old
black and white pictures
may connote that the
elderly audience aged 60
and above may also like
there music.
URL:
http://www.thepigeondet
ectives.com/
Like I said in analysis of
The Killers site The URL is
a key convention of a
website, which usually
has the band name in it,
and allows the audience
to easily get to the
website and remember
there URL.
5. News Feeds
Like the killers site they have some sort of news
feed that allows the audience to follow what the
band is doing. Where the killers have a calendar
like system that informs the audience as to what
they’ll be doing (example tours, producing next
album), when, and where, the pigeon detectives
on the other hand have just a YouTube video
stating they’ll be in new york producing there 3rd
album. Thanks to YouTube the band can easily
keep there audience informed, it also allows them
to upload and share there music/videos with the
world for free.
6. Hyperlinks
This site consists of only a single page so there isn't
any point in a menu bar, however they do have links to
other sites like Facebook, MySpace, Tweeter. The fact
they have a presence on these social networking sites
means they’ll be able to use viral marketing to target
there audience.
This site does have sound with the YouTube video but
like the killers site they don’t have any of there music
they cant engage the audience with it in order to keep
them on the site, and make sales. However they do
provide hyperlinks to there records labels site:
http://dancetotheradio.bigcartel.com/artist/the-pigeon-
detectives were the audience can purchase their music.
