DJ.com.tw is a Chinese DJ community serving a large group of DJ artists from Taiwan, Hong Kong and the mainland China. Using XOOPS as a content management system, the site uses several general modules such as News, Newbb and Agenda-x for its content, and features the exclusive module produced by Brandycoke Productions named coolMusic. We also helped the client integrate osCommerce to work with XOOPS and converted the site's visual theme to provide a consolidated appearance to the whole site.
Artists Information
The exclusive XOOPS module coolMusic is designed to maintenance the information and music files of a selected group of users (artists), allowing them to upload their music through a web browser. They are also assigned specific pages describing additional information related to and editable by themselves. Each page contains a list of music submitted by specific artist and the download links.
Music Sharing
Besides the general info like name of composer, hit counts and download links that a particular published music page shows, members can rate the music and submit their comments. These features offered a more interactive community experience to the site members.
Music Charts
On the main page of coolMusic there are the latest published and the most popular music of different categories listed, where the chart positions are based on the hit counts within a week.
The DJ Shop
The client had a tight timeline to get the on-line shopping section of the site working. Since there is still lack of a stable module solution under XOOPS, we decided to have osCommerce customized and apply several changes to XOOPS for establishing connections between two mostly different web applications. Furthermore, the template structure has been rebuilt in order to match the look and feel XOOPS. As a result the two system now running visually incorporated.
Project Outline
- XOOPS customization and module development
- osCommerce customization and template convertion
- Web consulting
