High-profile, custom, quarterly magazine with an average of 3,000 visitors/month.
- Built using WordPress, custom WordPress themes and plugins, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JavaScript, jQuery, and SVG
- Highlights:
- Created plugin to turn any WordPress site into a magazine publishing system, complete with issues and article publishing workflow
- Sophisticated, 3-column layout that evokes print magazine and yet works responsively in smaller viewports
- AJAX Rotating banner ad system
- Responsive hero images
- Creative implementation of custom post types to capture and render an extraordinary amount of class news
- Flexible layout options (horizontal and vertical) for article features, available with the click of a button.
- Built custom aside system enabling content editors to build dynamic articles with multiple content streams, optimized for viewing at all viewports
- Developed a home-grown, responsive slideshow system that not only looks beautiful at all resolutions, but is optimized for fast rendering.
- Creative use of inline SVG and CSS3 to dynamically color magazine header on an issue by issue basis
- Optimized for fast performance and SEO, improving performance by a full grade on Yahoo YSlow and Google Page Speed. Utilized the following techniques:
- Template caching to minimize PHP calls, server settings for static asset caching, CDN for serving content, script position and concatenation, minification, and image smushing.
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- Multi-column desktop view
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- Tablet view
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- Mobile view
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- Example of custom floated aside