The site of the musicians abroad [FR]
The site of the musicians abroad [FR]
The site mousikos.fr is in French. It is dedicated to the classical musicians, the musical life abroad (outside France), and is performed with the collaboration of musicians, former students from a French musical school, living and working outside France. Under the form of a portal, the site offers information by country, that help to apprehend the musician everyday life, musical structure, to discover good addresses… as well as a directory of former students, communication tool to find friends, identify colleagues etc.
Link: www.mousikos.fr
Online: January 2009.
Language: French.
Description: Volunteer site with no lucrative goal, that I am the founder, it regroups already around twenty editors that represent countries from all around the world such as: GERMANY, CHINA, USA, GRECE, ISRAEL, LEBANON, LUXEMBOURG, SPAIN, PORTUGAL, UNITED KINGDOM, SWITZERLAND, ROMANIA, BRAZIL, COLOMBIA, JAPAN, etc.
Depending on countries, the treated them are:
- Musical life (rights, orchestra, rooms, salaries, competitions, etc.).
- Major musical events.
- Useful addresses (musical institutions and organizations, music shops, magazines, radio and television, etc.).
- Testimonials from musicians.
- Glossary of musical terms translated in French.
Writing: I wrote all the static pages as well as the Greek writing. I help also the editors from other editions.
Technique: Dynamic site entirely created and programmed by myself (structure & design, writing), using PHP/Mysql and CSS stylesheets, it contains different modules like search engine, real time attendance analysis etc. It allows the editors to partially manage their editions via an administrator console, and offers to the visitors different forms (contact, newsletter, directory, guest book).
- An editorial supervisor team is in charge of the quality of the site.
- Optimisation and referencing (SEO) in the major base search engines, exchange of targeted links. Use of communication tools (mailing, Facebook, Twitter…).
- Control of the display of the site on popular search engines (Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome).
- Creation of technical manual with all the site programming, in case of maintenance or technical issues (74 pages).
Tools available for the editors:
- Administration console.
- User guide to the administration console (a 7 colour pages PDF document with screenshots and FAQs).
- Writing convention (typography, colour codes, Internet rights and freedom – a 16 colour pages PDF document).