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Author Topic: Creating a Theatre Website Gary Crawford Expert Film Handler Posts: 200 From: Neptune NJ USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 12-30-2003 01:39 PM                     There are 1,001 ways to build a website, but all I ask is that they are simple and to the point. 37 pictures and dancing bears tend to make me lose interest and X it away. If you have a logo, try to keep it as uncomplicated as possible so it loads quickly. One pic is fine, show the front of your building. Then give me the who-what-wheres-etc, and KEEP IT UPDATED! I am NOT interested in the show you were running 2 weeks ago. Important info of course...prices, titles, times, directions, phone. If your theatre is a showplace from the glory days, by all means show it off, but on another page. "Click here to see pictures of our luxurious lobby and proscenium arch". People expect a pic page to take a minute or two to load. Unless Coca-Cola is paying you, don't bother plugging the products of your concession stand. Tell me if you pop your own popcorn and use real butter though. Hit counters don't mean much to anyone. Unnecessary musical backgrounds take too long to load. I don't want to hear a movie theme thanks. Keep it simple. A lot easier to maintain too.  |  IP: Logged Ray Brown Expert Film Handler Posts: 111 From: Dayton, WA, USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 12-31-2003 03:39 PM                        quote: Moderator screams: IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO QUOTE THE ENTIRE POST DIRECTLY ABOVE YOURS! Please read the FAQ. That's what I had in mind when I designed ours. Also, keep it easy to navigate. The index or frontpage is very simple and not cluttered. Logo at the top, picture of the marquee at dusk showing off the neon lighting in the right table cell, navigation buttons in the left table cell along with theater address, phone number, managers email address at the bottom. Since the town is so small and the theater is right on Main Street, we didn't feel a map was necessary. Anyway the marquee really stands out, especially at night! Since our theater was originally built in 1910, I have a seperate history page along with a complete tour of what the building looks like today. As for background music, most midis suck! Liberty Theater  |  IP: Logged Franklin Armstrong Expert Film Handler Posts: 106 From: Orlando, FL, USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 12-31-2003 07:39 PM                     Just don't make it like www.zotatheatres.com make it a web site you would want everyone to have for there home page!!!!!  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-31-2003 10:08 PM                     5 clicks to find a show time on the Zota website! I clicked back once when I couldn't find the show times, but there was a link on the page.  |  IP: Logged Joshua Lott Expert Film Handler Posts: 246 From: Fairbanks, AK, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 01-01-2004 12:24 AM                        I like the way ArcLight Cinemas website is designed. Ian, Did you design your own website?  |  IP: Logged Steve Anderson Expert Film Handler Posts: 168 From: Nashville, TN Registered: Feb 2000 posted 01-01-2004 08:41 AM                        I like the Rialto website....very clean and to the point.  |  IP: Logged Gary Crawford Expert Film Handler Posts: 200 From: Neptune NJ USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 01-01-2004 12:14 PM                     Mr. Brown, what a great site! This is exactly what I had in mind! A textbook example of a user-friendly site, great info, neat and clean and easy to read. IMO, perfect! Congrats on a good job.  |  IP: Logged Ray Brown Expert Film Handler Posts: 111 From: Dayton, WA, USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 01-01-2004 06:26 PM                        Thank you! Our former manager and I looked at other theater websites last summer and took what we liked and added some of our own ideas. We both wanted something that was easy to navigate and read. Color scheme was easy. I took the interior colors of the theater and played with the tables untill I got the right effect. I do like the Rialto site. If all we did was show movies, I would probably go with something like that. With live productions along with community events as part of the schedule, we decided to go with the current layout. Thanks again--Ray  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-05-2004 03:08 AM                        Put a picture of the front of your theater on the page, so people can find it. "3673 West 60-mile Unnumbered Shopping Center and Tire Store Boulevard" doesn't help any at all.  |  IP: Logged

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