We are currently hard at work on a brand new website for the Edinburgh-based theatre company Magnetic North (http://www.magneticnorth.org.uk) which involves not only rebuilding their current website but also adding on a completely new section to it called Open Source.
Open Source is a new project which Magnetic North are starting up which is designed to involve audiences and those interested in theatre more directly and deeply in the process of creating theatre. What they wanted, therefore, was a sub-site that would basically act like a social networking site, allowing people to connect to one another and take part in various discussions. Because of their schedule the company wanted the site to be up and running by the 5th of September which meant that the challenge for us was:
- To create a site with full social networking features such as friends, activity streams, galleries, forums, events listings, private messaging and more!
- To completely redesign the existing site and come up with a variation on this design for the social networking part of the site
- To install and configure a blog for the site
- To allow the company’s members to login securely to adminster all parts of both sites from a single location
And this all had to be achieved within 3 weeks! Will we manage it? Check back soon and find out!