New Web Design: Kings Of A&R [Version 3]

Posted on Jun 17, 2010 in Artwork, Backgrounds, Banner Ads, CSS, Database Driven, Design Work, Featured Work, Logos, Menus, Web Design

In its existence Kings Of A&R, the very popular music industry A&R website has gone through three web versions.  This is the first time that we have been involved in a full re-design of the site and both us and the client themselves are very pleased with the results.

Not only focusing on the design, we also worked on SEO, social network updating amongst many other things.  We took the layout of Version 2 of the Kings Of A&R site and updated it completely whilst still keeping all the greatness that already existed.  We simplified the colouring, adding a featured slider, designed a brand new logo etc.  We also simplified the sidebar, its content and put a little more focus on advertising and tags.

The menus were split into two, one for the informative pages on the site and the second for the blog categories.  New categories were introduced based on the content that Kings Of A&R posts (Industry News, Featured).  A new featured section was also added to the footer to always promote the latest stuff from each section wherever you are on Kings Of A&R.  We included social networking icons to the header too to keep it nice and simple for people to stay in touch with the Kings Of A&R guys.  We also made sure we included an e-mail newsletter signup in both the header and the sidebar making it easier to signup to the newsletter and get all the latest Kings Of A&R updates wherever you are on the site.

Some screenshots of the new site are below but as always check it out for yourselves in the flesh to fully appreciate it in all its glory:

http://www.kingsofar.com

Kings Of A&R Web Design - Front Page Featured Slider

Kings Of A&R Web Design - Front Page, Category and Search Posts and Sidebar

Kings Of A&R Web Design - Footer and Featured Items