Client is a community developer at Melbourne, Australia. He is keen towards promoting talents of artists by forming a hub for independent artists. It’s one of the fastest growing community.  Here artist from all fields actor, musician or stage player can join and promote their talents. To say more, it hold talents across different domain such as Actor, Comedian, Dancer, Designer, Technicians, Fine artist, Game Developers, Model, Musician, Performer, Photographer and Writer.

Challenges

Client wanted to launch a community website for independent artists. They wanted the ANGLER design & development team to create a comprehensive website with content management system, using open source tool Joomla. The website should cover all the independent artists’ categories such as Actor, Comedian, Dancer, Designer, Technicians, Fine artist, Game developers, Model, Musician, Performer, Photographer and writer.

The client also asked for a membership management for each category so as to manage the whole project through the website. Client requirement included heavy customization provision to publish events and news related to the projects in the website. It should also have a feature to create / post classifieds. Competitions are another feature where the members themselves should participate and update the details.

What we did

We at ANGLER studied the client requirements and deployed a dedicated resource for the web portal development. As per the specific client’s requirement, the web portal was developed using Joomla, an Open Source CMS framework. All the features & functionalities requested by the client were implemented. Some of the key features are: Creation & management of Community, Projects, Classifieds, Events, Competitions, etc. Membership Registration and User Login are the other features included for secured communication between members. In addition to the above, even kids can also become a member of the community with their parent’s approval. Payment Gateway was also integrated as per the client’s need.

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