Savannah Music Festival
The venerable music festival's website is awash with interactivity. Expanding menus galore, music and video players, an online store and a multitude of ways for content to intermingle.
The Client
Savannah Music Festival
Online
savannahmusicfestival.org
Goal
The Savannah Music Festival was looking to start fresh for their 2008 series website. Using experience drawn from previous years and the work of competing festivals for inspiration, the latest website iteration has engaging, immersive and deep content. Heideldesign worked closely with staff designers to create the look and feel while utilizing advanced coding techniques to minimize clicks and make each page as useful as possible.
Project Synopsis
A world-class celebration of music needs a world-class website capable of serving an audience of more than 60,000 attendees. And as those thousands plan their festival experience, they rely on savannahmusicfestival.org to be their online tour guide. Heideldesign uses Movable Type to handle the deep content demands of this site, including an event calendar, artist profiles, pressroom, mailing lists, and media management such as audio, video and podcasting. Heideldesign also uses the "tags" feature in Movable Type for cross-referencing. Whether a user is searching for a particular artist, performer, genre, venue, or performance type, these tags give them a more dynamic and interactive web experience, and connect them with the information they need.
Site Features
Content Management System
- Staff can update the website
Media Management
- For organizing and playing audio and video, including podcast support
Easy File Upload and Storage
- For photos, PDFs, mp3s, video and more
Mailing Lists
- Several one-way and all-way mailing lists to target special groups
Online Store
- E-commerce system for securely selling festival merchandise
In house CMS training with full documentation.
Tools
This site runs on Movable Type, an easily customizable content management platform. Multiple staff members can quickly add to the site content with the push of a button.