The Muse website background uses the iconic album cover from "Absolution" to be instantly recognizable to fans. The background can also be customized to different album covers. This provides a personal touch without blank spaces. The title section at the top has a sleek, uncomplicated design that has evolved with the music industry. It features the band's logo and consistent fonts. The different tabs entice visitors with news and tour dates to encourage learning more and attending shows. Photos showcase the band both professionally and personally to give insight beyond other sites. The email list grows the band's relationship with fans by keeping them informed of exclusive new information.

1. MUSE WEBSITE ANALYSIS

2. BACKGROUND
The background of the website uses the front cover image from
the bands iconic album ‘absolution’ which is a well known
symbol of the band, it instantly is recognised by any fan of the
band and it gives the website a personal touch that would be
missing if they just used a block colour. Another part of the
background that works really well is that you are able to
customise it into any of the album covers you like, which means
that you can change the website to match the style of the band
that you personally prefer the most, which adds something to
the website that isn't usually there. This background works
really well behind all of the text and means that there is always
something to see on the website, with no area looking blank or
shabby.

3. TITLE
This is the options bar at the top of the website, there has been a
clear progression over time in the look of websites like this, with
them once being packed and enticing to the eye, they are now sleek,
avoiding any over complication, which may suggest a change in the
music industry and bands styles.The title in the left corner acts as a
logo for the band, which matches up to their album, showing
consistency and creating the bands trademark image.The fonts are all
the same, following the boxy style of the bands logo, giving the
website a solid image from the very top of the page.Already there is a
chance to customise the page, which shows how the band tries to
make the site personal to each fan. Something which would impress
people who feel it shows the bands commitment to giving the fans a

4. TITLE
The different tabs that a reader can enter follow a similar pattern
for every website. By putting news first the band are enticing you
to learn more, which would help people to feel that they knew
the band personally. It would also increase the amount of
information being seen, and this page could be good for
encouraging people to come to tours. The next tab of tours dates
is important to getting a bigger and better crowd at events, as
people who enter this page may never have been thinking about
going on the tour, but through this page they may find out about
opportunities they hadn't hear about on other forums. However
this doesn’t take a central role on the page because the logical
thought would be that if a person knew about the website they
would also know the band, and they'd be visiting the website for

5. PHOTOSThis is something I really like about MUSE’s website and is a
collage of pictures of the band, which showcases all different
parts of the band as it flips through a gallery of photos. I like this
because it gives an insight to the band that people may not find
on other websites, with a mixture of personal photos taken
from website like Instagram as well as some professional shots
that have been taken. Again the titles are following a recurring
theme in font and colour, with it being bold and standing out
more than any other font available.

6. NEWS
This is something that appears beneath the title and photos, and
is a link to one of the tabs listed at the top of the page, this one
is to the news page, and features an exciting story that is
supposed to excite the fans, and convince them to follow onto
the page, which can act as good promotion for the band. This
may be considered similar to the bands very own newspaper,
printing all the positive things that happen to the band, creating
the impression that everything is positive when it comes to the
band, avoiding any negatives that there are.

7. EMAIL LIST
This is another area of the website created to form a para-
social relationship between the band and the fan, by offering
them the chance to learn even more information about the
bands live, and giving the chance to be the first to know about
the new and exclusive information about the band. All of this is
a very goodtechnique used by the website
creators to bring in more
publicity for the band. It also
increases the amount of
information that is being sent
out and published by the fans,
meaning that they are learning
more, which also improves the
relationship with the fans.