RTL Group, one of the largest media groups in Europe, required an interactive website to give an overview of its broadcasts to the audience and to allow program fans to communicate with each other.
Project Description
Project Organization and Management
The website enables users to view not only video and photo materials, but also advertisements of upcoming shows. Visitors are enjoying the opportunity to vote online and discuss videos in the forum.
Website is based on the Mambo content management system. It is managed by administrators who work with user accounts and backend systems and by content managers who create and publish video, audio, photo and text files. It provides the client with the option to assign appropriate employees, consequently avoiding time and effort overhead usually exhaustive for content- and media-rich web projects.
Intellias took over the technical project management, development, and deployment as well as the post-production support of this project. Functional requirements were defined according to Use-Cases, while non-functional requirements were defined according to URPS+ model.
The website is hosted on a dedicated server. During pre-production tests a demo server was setup aiming at pre-deployment and acceptance testing.
Technology Stack
OS:
Windows 2000/XP, Unix-based systems
Development Platform:
PHP 4 / Mambo CMS
Database Backend:
MySQL 4.x
Other Technologies:
HTML, JavaScript, CSS2 Realtime Windows Media Streaming