Ben Scott Arts - Art/design/video

Mogwai website

Website for the internationally reowned band Mogwai from Scotland.

I developed designs from Duncan Macdonald using various database elements and carefully constructed HTML and CSS code. For more detailed explanation click to read more for this article.

This site was meant to enable the band and managers to more effectively upload content to the web. It also required a migration of servers and content from another CMS.

The previous site had included:

• photos
• videos
• audio
• news messages.

We took these and developed a few more features to extend the site.

This site has been a success with over 50000 users in the first month of its release. Planning the server requirements and bandwidth was a learning experience and required myself to set up an account using Plesk on a Media Temple virtual server in USA.

This is probably the most ambitious site I have built to date and has subsequently been integrated as a working practise with sites like Schtum and Spacestudios redesign

Hardware/software used:

• Joomla CMS
• Accessible web design practises
• RD Sitemap component
• Gigcalendar component
• Slideshowpro and Slideshow Pro Director
• Mint stats
• Listmessenger email newsletter manager
• Philaform forms creator
• Plesk administered control panel
• Loudblog podcasting suite

People involved

Mogwai, Duncan Macdonald, Craig Hargrave of Rock Action Records, Creation Records, Peter Chauncy

Dates

Completed February 2006