Jump to content

  • Sign Up!

    Join our friendly community of music lovers and be part of the fun 😎

Coming Soon: New Glasto Site...

Guest sirmumblealot

By Guest sirmumblealot
in Chat

 Share

Recommended Posts

sirmumblealot Newbie

sirmumblealot

Posted
Posted

Check out the article below which suggests the official website will be recieving a makeover:

http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2009/05/15/1...y-festival-site

"The Glastonbury Festival has tasked HyperlaunchDMG to design its website which will go live next week.

The agency is the first in the festival’s history to be appointed to the role and sees it tasked with bring all of its news and information while being content-rich, and user-friendly and also reflect the character of Glastonbury Festival.

An illustrative montage creative style will depict the various scenes of the Festival and has been applied to the headers across the main sections of the site.

The line-up section will contain this year’s festival poster providing an-at-a glance line up for the festival, a planner will allow users to compare up to nine stages at a time - showing who’s playing while there will be also be a searchable A-Z list of artists.

Blogs will also be available on selected areas where users can follow updates from the area managers."

Link to comment
Share on other sites
eFestivals Mentor

eFestivals

Posted
Posted
Yeah i'd say it makes perfect sense to announce the line up with the new site. How spiffing.

I'm not sure that the new site will go live with the line-up announcement - a convo I had last week or early this week with the person at Glasto in charge of the website suggested different, tho it wasn't specifically stated.

Launching a new site on an extremely busy day for that site is a very bad way to do things - the fact that each user will have to load every single part of that site and not pull any of it from their cache puts an awful lot of extra strain on the webserver, and is likely to lead to crashes if busy.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Ed209 Newbie

Ed209

Posted
Posted
I'm not sure that the new site will go live with the line-up announcement - a convo I had last week or early this week with the person at Glasto in charge of the website suggested different, tho it wasn't specifically stated.

Launching a new site on an extremely busy day for that site is a very bad way to do things - the fact that each user will have to load every single part of that site and not pull any of it from their cache puts an awful lot of extra strain on the webserver, and is likely to lead to crashes if busy.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
mouth Newbie

mouth

Posted
Posted

looks like the website will put the clashfinders out of work too.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
eFestivals Mentor

eFestivals

Posted
Posted
thats the way i read it too, but will they actually have the timings?, no reason not to i suppose, hopefully from every stage

I'd guess that it won't actually state the times, tho will probably put the acts in the right slots time-wise against each other.

The reason I suspect that it won't have the times is that Glastonbury have been quite insistent in the past that they shouldn't be published (yes, I know that The Guardian has published them anyway). This is because it's been felt that publishing the times in advance would affect cash sales of extra programmes for those people who want to buy extra programmes, and risk the fest being stuck with a load of unsold programmes and the associated financial loss on those programmes.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
×
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...