Nightjar — a box office
Where a festival is one event in depth, a venue is many in sequence. Ten shows across twelve nights, each with an advance price and a door price, and a detail page that sells without making anybody think.
The listing is ruled like a printed listings column: date, act, room, price. It is the oldest solved problem in this business and it is still the right answer.
The dates rebase when it installs, so the listing is never a blank page on the first afternoon.
Every one of these was somebody’s Tuesday afternoon.
Twelve starting pointsYou are copying a site, not a wireframe.
Whichever one you pick, it lands in your account with its pages, its brand tokens, its content and every module the design depends on already configured. Nothing is shared with the original — change the prices on day one and no other site moves.
Three more, chosen by nobody.
The index is generated from the same twelve entries, so it is never out of date and nobody has to remember to update it.
Threshold — a festival
Coalhouse — a band
Grainline — sell a file
Change the words.
Keep the machinery.
Or start from an empty page and build it yourself — by hand, or by describing it to an agent.