The Painesville Party In The Park website went live last week.  PPITP is a music festival organized by the Painesville Community Improvement Corporation.  The party is the “largest free music festival” in Ohio and takes place July 16, 17 and 18.  I highly recommend attending this event.  The music schedule includes several genres.  There is bound to be something for everyone’s liking.

The website was built on the Joomla! content management system.  This setup was highly customized to present the musical information.  The following were a few of the customizations and/or challenges that were implemented.

Bands/Entertainment

A customized entertainment manager was created to allow updates to bands and other entertainers.  The manager allows for the party members to add photos, biographies, music and more.  The bands also link to sponsor and event records in other areas of the website.  When music is uploaded, the band’s information page will contain a mp3 player.  Users can now listen to various tracks from the artists who will be attending PPITP.

Sponsors

A sponsor manager was created to help give benefits to those providing support for the event.  A banner system was also incorporated to provide spotlights to sponsors.  This same banner system can also be seen in use on the Madison Perry Area Chamber of Commerce website, though with a slightly different implementation.  Custom programming was done to help intertwine the sponsors on PPITP with entertainment and event information.

Events

The greatest challenge of this project was to intertwine the event calendar with entertainment and sponsor information.  All were separate management entities.  Each entity provided it’s own display logic to properly present information.  Now, there are combined displays allowing for entertainment and sponsors to show on the event list and vice versa.

Landing Page

A landing page was implemented to help provide some basic information about the party and entice users to visit the internal contents of the site.  The landing page displays the event dates, the names of random features and several photos.  It was also built on top of the saxophone logo.  If you ask me, it looks pretty sweet.

Common Elements

The website also possesses some of the common elements that exist in my sites.

• Photo Gallery
• File Uploaders used for the Press Releases, Media,
• Personnel managers used for the volunteer sections
• Link database
• PayPal simple cart integration for Vendor checkout.
• Social networking
• … and more

Check out the website at http://www.ppitp.com.