At the beginning of this year we started working with the Alicante bullfighter José María Manzanares, and one of the needs they put on our roadmap for this season was to change their website.
A very important and beautiful challenge, and above all, one in which we had to take care of all the details, because one of the most important aspects of this client, as well as being one of the most important and recognised bullfighting figures in the world, is his perfectionism when it comes to working with him.
Jose María Manzanares supervised all this change together with his communication team. We start from the premise that there is no bullfighter with more presence on the Internet than him. He can boast a Twitter account that has almost 140,000 followers, and his Facebook fan page has over 137,000 followers to date. You can imagine the challenge we face when we have to develop his physical space on the web.
So, we got down to work. We started with a content management system that we adapted to our taste so that the website could be easily updated at any time and by a staff with a few simple notions of office automation.
It is an eminently graphic website, designed to meet the demands of professionals and amateurs, with content that is easy to share on social networks and accessible from any browser, both for smartphones and tablets.
A website with all the news generated and the best images of each season, with a navigation that reveals a collage of images arranged in three full-screen columns. Each image corresponds to a news item. By placing the mouse over them, the user can interact with the image, view it full screen, share it on social networks and, of course, access the published news item.
The home page includes a menu with the following sections: El Torero, Press, Editorial, Galleries, Agenda and Contact.
The section "El Torero" offers complete information about the bullfighter and his family, one of the most renowned bullfighting dynasties. In "Milestones" and "Biography" you can consult the most important dates in the Alicante-born bullfighter's career. "In Memoriam" is a tribute to his father, the recently deceased maestro Manzanares. This microsite invites you to an emotional journey through his best performances, collected in photographs, videos and chronicles of the time. From the father, the website moves on to "The Family", a section where you can read about and get to know the other protagonists of a bullfighting lineage that extends over time, from his grandfather, a novillero, to his brother, a rejoneador (bullfighter), and including the two José María Manzanares, father and son. In the more personal area of the website there is also space to meet "La Cuadrilla" who accompany the bullfighter in the bullrings. "El Torero" closes with a section dedicated to "Statistics", where all the trophies won since he became an alternative bullfighter are listed.
As for "Press", this tab contains all the press releases, sorted by dates, categories, labels, etc. The "Editorial" section reflects José María Manzanares' status as a multi-faceted bullfighter, whose image transcends the bullring and occupies the covers of prestigious national and international non-bullfighting publications. He has been photographed by the most important fashion photographers of the present day.
The "Galleries" contains photographs and videos of his bullfighting performances, also meticulously catalogued to facilitate the search by categories or key words. Finally, the website is completed with the complete "Agenda", where the user can see when, with whom and where the next bullfighting event will take place.
All in all, a very complete and, above all, very satisfactory work. Today, 27 November 2014, it has seen the light of day.
Very happy customer and we are very happy!
Haven't you seen it yet? What are you waiting for! www.josemariamanzanares.com
CustomerTauropolisServiceWeb, DesignYearDecember 2014