Technical Report: Music Lounge

My fourth year project is a music based web application. It allows a user of the website to register an account, and once logged in, they are brought to a number of features on different pages that are of interest to anyone with a passion for music. As more users register and more profiles build up on the site, more activity and discussion can take place online, therefore my site is heavily reliant on user activity. Features given to users are mainly based around API’s, such as the Google Maps API which displays upcoming live events based on the area the user is in. Also contained on the site is a discussion page where users can create posts and generate a discussion in comments on a range of topics such as their favourite bands, previous shows they’ve been to, instruments they play etc. – much like a forum. They are also given a resource which allows them to search for their favourite artists, and be given a bio of that artist as well as being shown similar artists, recent news/blogs/reviews about their search. Chat rooms are available for online discussion, and users of the site can add each other as friends – an important feature for getting an online community and social website up and running