National Memorial Day Concert Website -
PBS.org/Capital Concerts
"The National Memorial Day Concert" (NMDC) and "A Capitol Fourth" are consistently two of the highest rated broadcast specials on PBS, and the NMDC website draws some of the highest web traffic of any program site on PBS.org. In early 2005 it was decided that the sites needed a complete re-design, and Podium Creative Director Joseph Finneran led that effort as well as overall site production, along with designer Sameer Zavery of Astralize.com, creating a dramatically more visual, highly interactive upgrade to the previous site. While core content was developed with the event producer Capital Concerts, the staff of PBS.org had final sign off on site design and functionality, and site coding and media had to integrate PBS standards and "widgets." The end product also became the model for a redesign of the site for "A Capitol Fourth" (completed by others) and both sites have simply refreshed content -- maintaining this new design -- in the years that followed.
"The National Memorial Day Concert" (NMDC) and "A Capitol Fourth" are consistently two of the highest rated broadcast specials on PBS, and the NMDC website draws some of the highest web traffic of any program site on PBS.org. In early 2005 it was decided that the sites needed a complete re-design, and Podium Creative Director Joseph Finneran led that effort as well as overall site production, along with designer Sameer Zavery of Astralize.com, creating a dramatically more visual, highly interactive upgrade to the previous site. While core content was developed with the event producer Capital Concerts, the staff of PBS.org had final sign off on site design and functionality, and site coding and media had to integrate PBS standards and "widgets." The end product also became the model for a redesign of the site for "A Capitol Fourth" (completed by others) and both sites have simply refreshed content -- maintaining this new design -- in the years that followed.
