2002
Oasis Fanatic
http://www.OasisFanatic.com
Oasis Fanatic was created in 2002 as a community site for Oasis fans. There wasn’t any content management system that could do what we do on this web site back then and there isn’t any commercial or open source solution for a similar site today. We modified version 1.x of PHPBB into our own content management system for bands, code named “Fansite Maverick”.
Some of the features of Oasis Fanatic include:
- Forums
- Galleries
- Reviews of members, concerts, albums, songs and pictures
- Band time line, quotes and encyclopedia
- RSS feeds for all sections of the site
- Search engine friendly URLs
- Points system for members to accumulate points for various ranks and awards
Most of the web site has not been upgraded to the XHTML. We plan to upgrade the entire web site to XHTML 1.0 Strict by the end of 2008. Once we have made further enhancements to the Fansite Maverick CMS and the templates, we should be able to launch similar community sites for other bands in 2009.
We created the Fansite Maverick CMS to tightly integrate every section of the web site. The CMS manages virtually everything you see on the web site unlike other portals that use 2 or more individual PHP scripts, which are not very well integrated. The CMS was upgraded to XHTML 1.0 Strict code and CSS in May 2008. We will constantly upgrade the CMS to keep it up to date with the latest trends and technologies.