Find a tune named after a place!

Tunelines.com website
One of Cyberium’s programmers has built an amazing website that uses a map to find tunes named after places.

Conceived by musician Helen Adam, Tunelines lets visitors search, using a map interface as well as a drop-down menu, for places and, if there is a tune with the name of the place in the title, to download a PDf of the sheet music.

Programmer Sam Adam-Day built the site and database, hacking and incorporating the API of Google Maps.

Cyberium was able to register the domain name, tunelines.com, despite the fact that the related word, ‘songlines’, is well known. Songlines are an Australian Aboriginal concept documented by the writer Bruce Chatwin.

The website is developing, and more tunes will be added over time.

The tunes are free to download but visitors are encouraged to make a PayPal donation to pay Helen, who is researching arranging the music and providing the sheet music.

Only traditional folk tunes are included.

Presently, only Welsh tunes are listed, but eventually it is hoped anyone will be able to suggest a tune from anywhere in the world.

If you have a brilliant idea for a website you’d like us to make, get in touch!

Arts and History Centre gets new website

Cyberium has made a website in Welsh and English for the arts, history and cultural centre of Llanwrtyd.

Llanwrtyd ells History and Arts Centre Website

It incorporates video and picture galleries to bring alive this valuable cultural asset, recently opened following the refurbishment of an old chapel in the centre of the town.

The town was once a major tourist attraction because it was a spa town.

The domain history-arts-wales.org.uk  was chosen for the website because it uses keywords people might use when searching for the subjects represented by the centre.

This is a good tip to use when choosing a domain when the actual name of a company or organisation is not well known or hard to spell.

For example, for another of our clients, a guest house in Snowdonia, we were able to secure the domain name guesthouse-wales.co.uk – bound to drive traffic for people searching for guesthouses in Wales!

The website uses the latest theme from WordPress to be fully responsive, and a free version of the WordPress MultiLingual site plug-in to generate the Welsh version of the site.

Contact us for more information on the cost of this for your own needs – it’s cheaper than you might think!