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A local Edinburgh music
club website project
THIS site was part of a marketing plan for the Dysfunction club
which had the full support of the Nightnews publicity 'machine'
from about September 2000 to July 2001.
The publicity plan included media listings, full colour flyers
as well as distribution, a poster campaign, internet marketing
including a newsgroup and this website.
The club has had its ups and downs under various promoters, backers
and DJ's over the years. It was revived for a while in 2001 by
the activities above accompanied by a move to a newer, more hospitable
venue.
Though the club has attempted more than one come back since summer
2001 - it has never really recovered from the loss of its best
venue. It's short lived success did however lead to that venue
opting to cater to the alternative music scene when it finally
reopened!
The basic site less gallery section was made over the period of
a week - the gallery section took another week including digital
image acquisition. The gallery scrolling javascripts are not functional
in some of the latest browsers but a fallback manual popup gallery
is provided for users in case of loss of scrolling functionality.
(It is also useful to overcome slow connection speeds.)
Material provided for the site was minimal and the developer had
to collect content as well as improvise an approach based on the
ephemeral nature of the subject matter to make a witty and compelling
site. It was a lot of fun to manufacture, much like the music
it celebrates..
The site is no longer maintained and many of the links it features
may have changed or been killed since it was made..
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