Kelowna Gigs

KelownaGigs began as a small directory of local musicians and events around 2003, with the static website being manually updated by a single administrator.  After developing custom content management tools, the site has been continually updated with fresh information since 2005.

The site received a second major update in 2009/10 with a redesign based on Drupal 6, as part of my honours thesis project.  The thesis explored the effect of the migration on user engagement, as well as the implementation of automated information extraction tools to gather new site content.  The new site stores more information on artists and venues, and creates connections between content to allow users to easily find other items of interest.