Capoeirasongs was my final project during my study Multimedia & Communication Technology in Antwerp. The website is a collection of traditional Brazilian song lyrics and is focused on non-Portuguese speaking visitors who want to learn these lyrics in a more easy and efficient way. Capoeirasongs was a somewhat bigger project than other websites I had built before, because I had to iterate through all the stages of building a websites myself, starting from brainstorming and sketches to a database design and the actual coding of the website.
The websites includes some cool features like dynamic translation of lyrics using the Microsoft Translator API, automatic generation of PDF-documents with the lyric and translation of a particular song, a custom search engine and the ability to record and upload your own voice so people can hear how the song goes. As I had just learned about the CodeIgniter MVC framework in class a month earlier, I decided to use a CodeIgniter installation, combined with the HTML5 Boilerplate from Paul Irish and a custom built template engine. During development I followed the progressive enhancement philosophy, using the newest technologies while still providing basic functionality for older web browsers.
