Research

Professional looking websites seem to be less iterative with only links and pictures maybe some videos but the iterative one seem to be the silly ones such as find the invisible cow.
In which you move your mouse around the screen until the word cow gets louder, it's a bit like hotter or colder, then when your over the cow you click and the cow pops up on screen then just goes moo then it pops up with the again button.
Anime website
Some anime, I watch, have websites, at the end of the episode or halfway through they might leave some info out of part of the episode or part of a plot line are tell you to find out more on their website. 
This anime, Dr.STONE's website includes news about the anime, airing times, the story; which has the description of every episode that is out so far, characters info; such as their names and Japanese voice actor with basic character description. Under the tab named movie, is a couple of clips from the show. There is a link just above the special tab to the science club/YouTube playlist; That has the little explaining robot from the anime, do the experiments and explain the science. The home page includes a reel of different visuals promoting the different arcs in the anime, which on the website change every so often and you can go back to one you missed as they have the visuals menu down the right side in small, so it doesn't cover up the visuals. When you scroll the visuals move with the scroll but not the page as they stay at the top. When you scroll down the page there is a small news bit then under that is the creator of the manga's twitter page, next to some clips from the show. then at the very bottom is a link to the science playlist.

Mainstream Platform
Youtube is probably one of the biggest websites, on there are a ton of videos ranging from educational or helpful to funny and stupid. On the home page if your not logged on then its shows what's popular, usually the called trending page. If you are logged in then it would be your recommendation which are a small few of videos that have been generated by watch you watch, so if you watch a lot of cat videos then there will be lots of cat videos sometimes by the same YouTuber.
Client website research
I couldn't find a client do my tutor got asked one of the preforming arts students, Alisha Taylor, she needs a website that will promote her, it will include a show reel and a few pictures. 
In this website they advertise that they will make you a photo portfolio for you if your a model, actor or photographer to help you increase you chances of getting jobs, in the middle three tabs at the top, model, photography and actor portfolio, you can pick what kind of photos you want, such as a head shot, which once you click on, takes you to their respective info page which also provides examples.
Portfolio web maker
This is another one that is similar, this is a website that is for you to make a portfolio website specifically for photography, art, design, illustration and fashion.
this website is similar to WIX or any other web making website, this one is just specifically for portfolios of art, photography, illustration, design and fashion. On the home page are these different tabs, on which have other websites that other photographers, for example, have made, which you can click on to see. These also provide examples for what another photographer might want to do for their portfolio.

Templates
My client doesn't really know what she wants so I have looked at some templates on WIX 
for her, that I will send her when she gets back to me. 

This is one is a simple two page website, that has the about page then the portfolio of both photos and videos. which when you click on either of the videos or photos, they go to an info paragraph about the piece, at the bottom of this page is some of the other videos and photos from the main page.
She did want on her website, her show reel that she needed to finish filming which I would help her with and and couple of pictures, in which a layout like this would be great, also the fact that she doesn't know what she wants, so a simple website like this would be good as it has what she has a basic idea of.

Evaluation
In these creative, professional, business websites the thing that is similar about them is the dark theme which separates them from other professional sites, these websites all still seem professional despite their dark look. They are easy to navigate though the pages with the easy menu and simple layout all together. The design of these websites might help me and Alisha with the design and layout of her website.

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