Architecture Week

Description

A joint ACE / RIBA initiative, Architecture Week is the annual national celebration of contemporary architecture.  Platform3 in conjuction with pkmb designed and built the site for Archictecture Week from 2004 - 2009. Each year we gave the site a new look and feel and extended the functionality of their intranet, extranet and public site.

Features

• new interface design each year
• database driven website with a full content management system
• advanced search facility allowing website visitors to create a personalised itinerary of events or email noteworthy events to a friend
• an extranet for regional partners and event organisers
• sign up to a regionally focused newsletter
• facility to submit images using mobile phone
• podwalks
• event guides
• printable tours & maps
• targeted information for specific audiences in sections with own feel (children; education)
• facility to browse by region

For its size and nature it is a well trafficked site; stats for June 2006:

• 1.25 million page views
• 197,000 visits
• 18,000 visitors visiting more than once
• just under a gig of bandwidth consumed.