Youth Arts Online
Aimed at 16-25 year-olds who enjoy the arts, Youth Arts Online aims to promote creativity and participation in the arts. Visitors can search an growing number of courses and organisations, read peer interviews, upload their own portfolios and discuss issues through specialised forums.
Site Content
Youth Arts Online features:
- courses
- organisations
- interviews
- portfolios
- forums
covering 10 different art forms:
- Dance
- Drama
- Music & Singing
- Carnival & Circus
- Film & Video
- TV & Radio
- New Media
- Creative Writing
- Visual Arts
- Crafts
The Community Provides the Content
An online registration and contribution system ensures that information appearing on the site is fresh and up-to-date.
The system works like this
- Organisations offering courses or workshops register and submit detailed outlines of each course on offer (including an expiration date).
- In house moderators approve these submissions though a custom designed online checking system, ensuring that the information on the site is valueable and safe.
- Before course information becomes out of date, organisations are automatically sent an invitation to update thier courses.
- Out of date information is deleted from the public side of the site.
Logo Design
Adaptive Technologies also designed the logo. As the basis for all YAO branding the logo needed to be flexible enough to work across a wide range media from internet to flyer. Here it is in a variety of situations:
Free Money
Revenue is generated through targeted text advertisments drawn from Google's Adsense system.