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Industry
Overview: Events Management and
Organization
Site: http://www.bayevents.com
Description: Bayevents is a site that
is created to mark the presence of the cities
lies in the bay area of the USA. It includes
the cities like San Francisco, Oakland, San
Jose and California. This site provides a
strong emotional connection to each of its
user and a friendly environment that creates
links between its ??. This site provides them
a platform where they can interact with each
other through various events and parties. |
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Project
Overview |
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Bayevents
planned a sequential and thorough methodology
with intensive research and analysis, detailed
planning and comprehensive approach to create
a new way of interacting with the people who
are having similar fields of interests and
with those who want to interact with the world
with their new ideas to enjoy the life.
One of the user of Bayevents commented that
“Bayevents is a smart way to communicate with
the people of same interest without roaming
throughout the world.”
Bayevents is a multifaceted site that provides
various facilities like online-chat, events
management, photo gallery, forums, classifieds
etc all available at one place. |
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Features |
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1. Architecture |
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A good site’s
architecture contents in a fashion that allows
for effective online delivery. Some of the
components that are included in Bayevents are
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- Navigation
The foundation of any site, an effective
navigation structure allows users to quickly
find what they are looking for. Bayevents
allows visitors to seamlessly move through
the site, focusing on the message and
contents rather than negotiating confusing
menu options.
- Layout of Products
Presenting products in a well-organized
and positive fashion encourages users to
focus on learning the benefits of each
product. Popular products were chosen for
feature display, and combined with
supporting imagery to help users identify
with and locate their relevant policy.
- Layout of Events
The events are main building blocks of
this site. Bayevents provides very effective
way to present the various events. The
featured events are classified along with
the presentation of the friend’s list.
- Layout of Homepage
First impressions are lasting impressions:
The home page layout was carefully planned
to display the most critical information and
value proposition in an effective visual
format.
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2. Usability |
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Steve Krug
said it best: “Don’t make me think”
An easy-to-use website offers a positive user
experience that allows visitors to focus on
evaluating the product instead of searching
for information, and also suggests the company
an ease to work with in every respect.
Bayevents site is extremely usable from many
perspectives. Here are some of the usability
features that are implemented:
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Navigation
and orientation features |
- Photographic presentation of events
- Multiple User Paths
- Color coding
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Audience
tools |
- Forums Presentation
- Chat facility
- Tickets availability
- Quick Contact form
- Searching Facility of Events
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Download
time management |
- User-initiated events
- Maximized text, minimized graphics
- Tickets availability and printing
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3.
Interactivity |
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Interactivity
offers an opportunity to engage visitors to an
extent that far exceeds static content. By
offering user-initiated presentations,
Bayevents provides an immersive and extremely
memorable user experience.
The chat and forum facility offers a
breathtaking way of communication between the
members while offering unexpected and fun
“surprises” to visitors. |
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4. Brand
Awareness |
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Bayevents
also provides brand awareness among the
visitors and the registered members by
featuring the latest brand products on their
home page section.
Bayevents also provides the facility to buy
those products.
In this way Bayevents has succeeded in
creating a highly positive image and
tremendous impact among its users about the
company and its products. Word-of-mouth
advertising is bolstered by this memorable
experience and impression offered by the site
as a whole is awesome. |
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Classifieds |
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Classifieds
offers a vast range of details for various
sections which covers almost all section
covering trading, selling, Housing,
Electronics and computers, employment and
jobs, community info and many more that are
highlighted under this section.
In this way Bayevents gives its clients a
better understanding of all the services that
it provides. The various sections under
classifieds itself cover a vast range of
distributed facilities. |
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6. User Path |
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The best
websites entice users to explore, and multiple
user paths make exploration easier and more
likely to occur. User paths consider not only
multiple routes through the site, but also
consider what visitors are looking for and how
they will find it.
Users typically scan pages quickly and rely
upon standard visual cues to decide where to
click. Because searching for information can
quickly become a frustrating task, multiple
user paths increase the chance that visitors
will find the link they want in a minimum of
time.
By considering diverse user levels and
proposing a variety of user tasks, it is
possible to anticipate the needs of many
users.
User paths help plan for a site that entices
users to explore and provides a highly usable
interface to navigate - thus contributing to a
pleasant user experience and increased
customer conversion. |
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7. Searching |
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The best
websites of the world provides facility for
its users to find the desired information
easily. In this aspect Bayevents provides
searching facility for its users to search the
required information throughout the site in
easy manner.
Users of Bayevents find the searching facility
more easy to use as compared to other events
organizing sites. |
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8. CMS |
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Content
Management System (CMS) is about having
control over the website. CMS allows
administrator of the website to change the
look and feel and the content of the site more
quickly to reflect the dynamic nature of the
site.
Bayevents is having a powerful Content
Management System that allows the
administrator to manage the site without
having much botheration about the sites’ look
and feel.
The CMS of Bayevents is having some very
useful and easily implemented features that
make this site different from other event
management sites. Some features are as
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- Banner Manager
Banner manager is a feature that
provides facility to add banners. These
banners will be displayed on the user end.
In this way Bayevents provides its users
some useful information about various
products and companies. The banner can be a
FLASH or a normal static HTML banner
- Abuse Manager
Abuse Manager helps administrator to
view the illegal intrusion of the members to
other member login. This way admin can take
steps according to the rules of privacy for
the site. Users are free to register
complaints if they are troubled by spam
mails. In this way the users are made more
comfortable to feel site as the secured way
of communication.
- Info Manager
As name suggests, the Info Manager
provides information but to the
administrator. In this way administrator can
view any information based on the searching
criteria he desired.
- Events Manager
Events Manager is the main feature of this
site. The Administrator can add various
events that are going to be organized in the
coming future. These can be made highlighted
or featured on main page according to the
admin choice so that users able to view the
events of their choice in their member area.
Admin can set priority of the events
according to which they are visible on main
page to the user.
- Contest Manager
Contest Manager provides administrator a
facility where he can add various contests
to the site to make it more lively and
eventful. These contests builds up a healthy
and competitive feeling among its users.
Thus prompting more user to become members
of the site and take participation in those
contests.
- System Mail Manager
System mail manger provides facility to the
administrator to send automated mails to the
members making them alert about the various
happenings. This is a very useful utility
for the admin.
- Ticket Manager
Ticket manager is one the best facility that
is added to this site. Administrator can
create and view box office report, creates
ticket surcharge and can view E-tickets
facility that is provided to the members.
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Conclusion |
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Results are
still emerging since the site is launched
recently-yet it has reported extremely
pleasing findings. |
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