Chinatown Arts Space
Website and CMS for East-Asian Arts organisation.
Client
Chinatown Arts Space
Date
December, 2010
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I designed and developed the first Chinatown Arts Space website as part of my company Kibook in 2006, and this version is the second incarnation, which is darker (just visually!) and is more ambitious in its aims.
At launch, this website was fully developed as a membership website that allows artists, audiences and organisations to register and use the site to promote their own profiles and to post their news onto the front page.
Each member has their own web address for their profile, which lists the information that they include (such as contact information, weblinks and their post and comment activity on the CAS website) as well as details of their projects. An unlimited amount of projects can be added by members.
Information about Chinatown Arts Space and past projects are also included from the previous website, which together with all news postings and other content, are fully dynamic and searchable.
Chinatown Arts Space as an organisation are evolving into a hub that serves the East Asian visual and performing arts community, helping to connect artists, audiences and other organisations.
The website is key to these objectives and aims to host the digital media that represents the artists and help nurture the relationships that develop between them and their audiences.
Although the Chinatown Arts Space website launched in December 2010, it will still be continually developed with more features added over the course of 2011, both with a view to the strategic aims of the organisation and the feedback received from the community.
The CAS site was built with the content management system Expression Engine and utilises a number of add-ons that include Safecracker, User, Freeform, ImageSizer, Twitter Timeline and HJ Social Bookmarks.
At launch, this website was fully developed as a membership website that allows artists, audiences and organisations to register and use the site to promote their own profiles and to post their news onto the front page.
Each member has their own web address for their profile, which lists the information that they include (such as contact information, weblinks and their post and comment activity on the CAS website) as well as details of their projects. An unlimited amount of projects can be added by members.
Information about Chinatown Arts Space and past projects are also included from the previous website, which together with all news postings and other content, are fully dynamic and searchable.
Chinatown Arts Space as an organisation are evolving into a hub that serves the East Asian visual and performing arts community, helping to connect artists, audiences and other organisations.
The website is key to these objectives and aims to host the digital media that represents the artists and help nurture the relationships that develop between them and their audiences.
Although the Chinatown Arts Space website launched in December 2010, it will still be continually developed with more features added over the course of 2011, both with a view to the strategic aims of the organisation and the feedback received from the community.
The CAS site was built with the content management system Expression Engine and utilises a number of add-ons that include Safecracker, User, Freeform, ImageSizer, Twitter Timeline and HJ Social Bookmarks.