Hove was one of Norway's most beloved music festivals — a big, chaotic, sun-soaked event on the coast near Arendal that ran for over a decade before financial trouble shut it down in 2013. When a new organiser announced plans to revive it in 2019, I was brought in to build the festival's website from scratch. The brief was straightforward: a WordPress site that could handle the lineup, ticketing info, and a surge of traffic from a fanbase that genuinely missed the festival.
I built the site using WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, and CSS — focusing on a responsive layout that worked well on mobile, clean artist and lineup pages, and solid SEO foundations. The kind of project where the technical scope is clear but the pressure is real, because the audience is already watching.
The festival was cancelled before it ever happened. That's the honest version. The site was ready; the event wasn't. It's a reminder that shipping good work doesn't guarantee a good outcome — and that's fine. I'm proud of what was built, even if nobody ever bought a ticket through it.