At-a-glance: PolkOnline
- Overview: Online newspaper website for Polk County, Florida
- My Role: Web Designer, promoted to Online Services Manager
- Traffic: Regional newspapaper website. 12,000 paid subscribers and ~300k visitors per month to the website.
- Technologies: Used a custom-created CMS tool, called SiteWeaver to rip web content from QuarkXpress layouts for the print paper. Eventually this was made into a standalone product and resold to companies, including the New York Times. Also used multiple variants of Real 24/7 Ad server technologies to serve ads, used Zip2 for verticals, including RealEstate etc.
- Goal: To serve as a news hub for the residents of Polk County, Florida.
- Notables: Migrated a hardcoded website to a more templatized approach, which had immediate improvements to Publisher requests for website changes. By far the most popular section of the online newspaper website was the Obituaries. I always found that odd :)
- Visit: http://www.polkonline.com I worked on the previous version, as shown in the screenshot to the left
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