This site was created by the 5 people in the Web and New Media production team for the production Event May 10th. The idea with the site is to give each of the groups involved the event, a space they can use to showcase their work. To accomplish this, we knew that we would need to provide a website that was very flexible. We would need to provide special features for nearly every group: video for television, galleries for the photographers, audio for the radio people, a blog for music industries and the opportunity to post articles and press releases for the journalists and the PR group. Because of the size of our group, it would be nearly impossible if we had to satisfy the needs for every individual group. We therefore knew that we had to provide each group with the opportunity of uploading their own content. We did this to give each group the freedom to decide what they wanted on their site, and to prevent a last minute rush where the 5 of us the day before the event, would have to upload everything. What we did to try and stay loyal to the theme “20 year of media” was to go with a certain period and try yo stick to that throughout the development of the site. We went the “Web 2.0” term which is a term used to describe a certain group of sites and internet applications that started to appear from the beginning of millennium and is getting more and more popular. More on this later. So the overall general idea with the site is that every group has the power to use their individual site for what ever they want. We feel this was the best solution to the problem we faced. The design for the page is also made with the term “Web 2.0” and the media in mind. The two main sites for the inspiration is our own mediacourses.com site and the other one is the web 2.0 site lastfm.com. Lastfm.com is a site that uses the concept of web 2.0 to it's full and is for me a perfect example of what web 2.0 is capable of. The site can via a little application, track the songs a user plays on his/hers computer and send that information to lastfm's server, then lastfm compares all the songs from each user, and then suggest to each user what kind of music he/she might find interesting, where gigs are held with a particular artist and who else listen to the same kind of music and much more.

mediacourses.com

The inspiration for the positioning of the sidebar and the header images came from mediacourses.com.

iproduce.org

The inspiration for the navigation bar came from the “old” lastfm.com website.

lastfm.com

The website has changed now but you get the idea from the picture above.

iproduce.org

Enjoy the site!