Need a string quartet in Charlottesville?
Computers MusicPublished March 26, 2010 at 11:27 am No Comments
Check out the Virginia Orpheus Musicians, a group of local performers affiliated with the University of Virginia. They’ve had years of experience playing for weddings and other events and they would certainly add that “something special” to your event.
I designed the web site, uploaded it a few days ago — it’s the second string quartet web site I’ve made in the past year and a half, the other one being for the Amadeus Musicians in New York. The Amadeus Musicians site was the first web site I’d designed in about 7 years, so it isn’t that great. When I coded it I was operating in a 2001 mindset (resuming where I’d left off), as you can tell by looking at the design! I plan to overhaul it this summer and make the site as professional-looking as it needs to be.
But anyways, the interesting new thing I did with the Virginia Orpheus Musicians’ web site was to integrate it with WordPress, a popular blogging platform. This way the owner can update the site as easily as one would update a blog, a Facebook status, or a YouTube account, and I don’t have to be summoned every three days to fix grammatical errors, change links, and add images, etc. Not only does this take a load of mundane work off of my shoulders, but it also empowers the owner of the site. They can get “behind the scenes” and understand how their web site works in a more intimate way. They have more control over the content — they can update it whenever they feel, without worrying about whether or not they’re bothering me. With this new system, I only have to be summoned when a major update is needed or something goes seriously wrong (which never happens). Another benefit is the plethora of plugins floating around the WordPress universe — easy systems for managing photo galleries, contact forms, traffic statistics, polls, you name it. It’s a win-win situation.
Needless to say, a traditional web site integrated with WordPress is only ten minutes of tweaking away from having a fully-functional blog attached to it. 
