Moving Tone

The Client: 

Moving Tone Ltd, Cambridgeshire's independent not-for-profit live music arts organisation created to inform music lovers about local music happening all around the county.

The Site:

As a non-profit music and arts organisation, the Cambridgeshire based Moving Tone required like minded company to deliver the redevelopment and merging of their two sites into one, with a wealth of community generated content about events, musicians, venues, a music communities in and around the county.

This provided a unique and exciting technical challenge of blending user generated content with official site news and reviews in a secure and accessible manner, allowing automated cross referencing of information throughout the site.

The site required some interesting functionality including:

  • A web based music directory of artists, bands, promoters, retailers and venues
  • Content to be categorised in multiple ways, eg. by genre, music community and content type
  • Comprehensive events listings including archived events, reviews, cross referenced to venues and artists
  • An online shop selling tickets, CDs, and DVDs, linked to relevant events or artists

Technologies: Drupal, Ubercart, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Flash, Javascript, AJAX, PayPal