I’ve just finished building a website for the graduating year of the MA course which I’m currently on (I still have another long hard year to go!). I’ve found the whole process really interesting in terms of organising a group of artists to send me the content I need to get the site up and running, and also working with a group of students who all had very different ideas about what they wanted from the site. I’ve built a lot of websites during my career but getting all of the artists to send the correct information for the site was incredibly time consuming and frustrating at times.
I was careful to set down rules for the process at the start of the project. One of the things which I found really helped was only dealing with one person, who acted as a point of communication for all of the students on the course.
Now the site is pretty much finished apart for a few tweaks and more content to go in. I used the WordPress content management system to build it so that a couple of volunteer students can upload more content on behalf of the other students. It’s a really simple design and it functions well for the purpose:
If you are interesting in attending the degree show these are the details:
University of Brighton Gallery, Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY.
Friday 10th September – Friday 17th September
Gallery Hours: Monday – Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Sundays.
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