Local team collaborates to create Brighton and Hove Virtual Festival Web site

A group of Brighton and Hove-based Web professionals have collaborated to design and build the Web site for the sixth annual Virtual Festival (www.virtualfestival.org.uk).

The Virtual Festival is coordinated by Mark Walker of the Sussex Community Internet Project (SCIP) and runs in parallel to the Brighton Festival throughout May 2003. This year a new logo and brand identity was created by local designer Nigel Gordijk, who also produces the advertising and marketing collateral.

Web site technical development is by Hove's Jane Dallaway and Richard Dallaway. The site has an innovative feature - created by Matt Walker - that allows people to contribute to a daily diary using SMS text messages from mobile phones, images sent from picture phones, or direct from the site itself.

Amongst the Virtual Festival's other features are:

Live Webcams: regularly updated views of Brighton and Hove.
Weblogs: Brighton Blogs by local residents.
Annual Web Awards: nominated and voted for by Brighton and Hove residents.
The Festival committee is: Mark Walker, Richard Dallaway, Jane Dallaway, Nigel Gordijk, Helen Goss, Tom Hume, Johanna Hunt, Ann Light, Sophie Major, Belinda Nash and Matthew Walker.

This year it is supported by: thisisbrightonandhove.co.uk, The Argus, Sussex Enterprise, Virtual Brighton & Hove, Midnight Communications, Brighton Young People's Centre, Brunswick Older People's Project, The Big Issue, Brighton and Hove City Council, and O'Reilly Books.