Festival de Jerez modernizes its official website and improves its contents

The event’s website is more accessible, includes a second language and allows interactivity with its users

Flamenco-world.com, December 2009

Festival de Jerez now has a new website on the Internet. The address is still the same, www.festivaldejerez.es, but it has changed not only its design, but also the layout of its contents, at the same time as it has improved its accessibility, a second language has been included and it allows interactivity with users. From now on, the event’s Internet website will try to respond to the demand for information arising from Spanish and foreign flamenco enthusiasts, fruit of the expectation that has grown edition after edition.

The website of the festival dedicated to flamenco dancing and Spanish dance uses software in keeping with the latest techniques in accessibility, besides applying the latest technological advances complying with the standard parameters on the Internet. Highlighting its advantages is the easy update of its contents, as well as a better search for them due to its integration into the municipal website.

On going to the website, users will see that the bill of the event’s fourteenth edition occupies the website’s central section. In the left margin, there is a menu consisting of the shows, courses, workshops, activities and press area. Each of them offers a pop-out menu with several options, which arranges the information more clearly. Moreover, the design makes it possible to interrelate the contents. Thus, netsurfers can see the dates of a course and at the same time get the résumé of the instructor who teaches it, for example. A link has also been created which goes to the corresponding Internet web page to buy tickets for the shows.

On the right side, a calendar highlights the scheduled dates of Festival de Jerez in the months of February and March. Placing the computer’s mouse over each day, netsurfers have a clear reference of the program. At the top, users from outside the city may make use of the different street maps for tourists, contact the festival organization or access the contents in English. Festival de Jerez’s new website moreover includes a press area and will soon develop access to photographs of artists, as well as fans’ connection through forums.

As an official medium on the Internet, Flamenco-world.com will facilitate netsurfers’ access to the new official website, strengthening its collaboration with the international coverage of information with the page it dedicates to Festival de Jerez 2010, with its general news and special features sections, and with its specific bulletin, which now has over 1,300 subscribers.

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