My Websites
Web work that I have overseen the development of over the years
Shout Factory was what became of the principles of Rhino Records after they sold their remaining ownership share to Warner Brothers in 1999 for a reported $80 million.
Shout was launched in 2003 and following a similar model as Rhino, releasing music catalog re-issues and compilations, retro-TV shows on DVD. They managed their online business for a few years with a website that had by then outgrown its purpose. Shout wanted somebody with a deep background in music and pop-culture, somebody that could flesh out a robust functional spec, understood the strategic elements of the user experience, and somebody who could oversee the entire build and launch through the entire development life-cycle.
The site was initially intended to be a PHP deployment, but the decision was eventually made to build the new ShoutFactory.com in ASP.NET due to the fact that the Ecommerce component was a .NET solution: it was critical that the site and store be integrated for a seamless user experience between the two domain which exist on two different servers. At launch, the site featured streaming flash video, a message board community, a news and newsletter archive, games, and contests, and a fully integrated Ecommerce engine.
Later I incorporated a robust multi-channel media player, audio and video podcasts, and a dynamic tour dates page.
Amazing learning experience, and this screenshot was how it looked under my watchful eye, site has since been re-designed, something I had nothing to do with.
C/Z Records description goes here...it was my label for about a decade and a half...been forever since I last released anything...close to 10 years in fact?