Glasgow's Concert Halls
Bringing new audiences to Glasgow's iconic venues
The bass line
The Challenge
Full of talented artists and hidden venues, the city's music scene has a lot going on.
It can be hard to navigate — for tourists and locals alike.
Managing three main venues with festivals, concerts, workshops and more, Glasgow Life's music team needed to make it easy for users to explore what the city's most prominent venues have to offer.
The Objectives
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Showcase new spaces
Celebrate the work done on Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's new home. -
Promote festivals
Introduce new audiences to an incredible lineup of music festivals. -
Get 'em to the gig
Break down barriers for visitors and drive ticket sales.
The Insight
The Process
Moodboards
Develop moodboards to define the site's look and feel with the client team.
Iterative Development
Start building iteratively on SharePoint 2013 — in line with Glasgow Life's web estate.
Events API Integration
Integration with the Glasgow Life events database API to provide pre-filtered events search, event detail pages and related events.
Bespoke Development
Build in bespoke functionality, like embedding video and audio, social feeds and newsletter sign-up.
Key Features
The website uses the API from Glasgow Life's events database — made by Storm ID — to display events taking place at each location. It allows users to search and filter by date, programme and venue.
The site supports clear user journeys from the events listing through signposting to Glasgow Life's tickets site.
Users navigate the website with primary and relative secondary navigation bars — both sticky as the user scrolls. The secondary navigation also works as a "scroll to" anchor: clicking a link will scroll the page down to the right section.
Client-side technologies used in the events database enable the dynamic generation of filters, to make it easier for users to seamlessly browse events.
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