Already when we started working on the Pitch & Smith Booking System we discussed exporting information about the artists' upcoming shows from the back-end to the website www.pitchandsmith.com. As time went on we decided to make a new website, which would still be simple but more informative than the old static site. The result is a one-page site with a calendar, artist information and a list of upcoming shows for each artist.
Instead of building the new site from scratch we just added a few fields to the back-end system and created a new visual layer on top. All relevant data is made available from the back-end, which means that the Pitch & Smith administrators only ever need to handle data in the back-end interface.
The front-end contains some delicious jQuery trickery which achieves the smoothness and intuitive navigation that we wanted. This solution also gives the visitors a feeling of interaction and being in control of the website.
