Any Womad Stories?
Just in time for WOMAD Charlton Park we’ve finally launched our new community website Womad Stories.
Based on the same ideas and technology we used with Real World Remixed the idea is to encourage the festival goers to recount their favourite tales about the experience. From performance reviews to more general festival tales, both good and bad, we hope the site will bring out the inner journalist in the WOMAD punters.
Hooking in to the Flikr idea users of the site can also upload photographs to illustrate their stories and to enable this we are using a combination of custom php uploading scripts and the lightbox javascript library.
The most difficult part of the site to get working is tucked away in the submit and filter sections. The sideways scrolling filter panel was my best guess at how to deal with handling performance data from festivals dating back 5 years (with older information planned) in a simple and easy to understand interface.
As usual the site, from the back end to the interface is custom built in-house and has, for us, had an unusually long gestation as the original idea was floated nearly nine months ago. Development of the in-house ticketing system for Charlton Park and the long overdue redesign of Peter Gabriel’s website put the launch of the site back so it’s great to see it finally live.
