A topical listing of the most interesting events on Zaycev

Type of work: Layout, programming

A fairly large and extensive project that really made us "sweat". Excellent working experience for us and, as a result of this work, a useful and functional resource. We brought the client's idea to life and made all the cogs of this mechanism turn as a single whole.

This project is a city events listing for Zaycev - a guide to the most topical events in music, culture, art and cinema. A listing answers one of the most common questions people ask at the end of the week: where to go at the weekend? Cinema premieres, parties, exhibitions, concerts, theatre performances, museums and clubs all compete for attention, and the listing has to bring them together in one place, keep them up to date and let a visitor quickly find something that matches their mood, their plans and their date.

Our part of the work was the layout and the programming, and it was a fairly large and extensive project that really made us sweat. A listing is a complex mechanism: events belong to different categories, venues and dates, they appear and expire constantly, and every page has to show the right selection at the right time. The challenge was to bring the client's idea to life and make all the cogs of this mechanism turn as a single whole - categories, schedules, venue information and event pages working together so that the visitor sees a coherent, current picture of the city's cultural life. It was excellent working experience for us, and the result is a useful and functional resource.

The search phrases the listing was built for - listings, online listings, where to go at the weekend, cinema, theatre, concerts, exhibitions, museums, clubs and parties - cover the whole range of city leisure, and the programming behind the site makes sure that each of these interests leads to a page with real, up-to-date events.