SalsaTimba, a place for worldwide salsa and timba lovers to get the latest community and events info, music releases, video clips, and more, needed a way to materialize -- a complete website and identity design. Being very intrigued by the Salsa and Timba cultures, Contagious Networks took on the challenge and developed a geolocalized social networking and multimedia website, powered by Drupal.
Included in this heavily user-generated and manageable layout is a revision and approval system (in which users can themselves propose content changes which moderators then approve). The Drupal base also allows website administrators to easily update each section's content whether that be through text, image, video, or audio uploads. To heighten its networking potential, the site is also set up with Facebook Connect. Other third party services used by the site to provide for greater content and interactivity include Amazon's Affiliate Widgets for Music for song previews.
In terms of the site and logo, Contagious Networks was greatly inspired by the painted, graffiti revolutionary wall writings in Cuba and by similarly painted menu signs in Havanna cafeterias. At the moment, Contagious Networks is developing an iPhone app that will be connected to the site and therefore make Salsatimba.com's important information mobile-accessible.
Tools Used: Photoshop, Illustrator, PHP, HTML, CSS, Drupal Other: Hosting and Server Management Provided by Contagious Networks
» URL: www.salsatimba.com