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A Layout Customiser for The Sun

John Blackbourn
December 05, 2016
Technology
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A Layout Customiser for The Sun

Presented at BigWP on 5th December 2016

John Blackbourn

December 05, 2016
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Transcript

  1. A Layout Customiser for The Sun

  2. John Blackbourn @johnbillion | humanmade.co.uk

  3. Largest print newspaper by circulation Second largest newspaper website by

    viewers Migrated to WordPress.com VIP Go 400,000+ articles 1TB images Switched to HTTPS

  4. Building a Layout Customiser (not a Page Builder)

  5. None

  6. Editorial Requirements Quickly alter the content and layout of the

    home page and section pages

  7. Editorial Requirements Visually and technically accurate representation

  8. Editorial Requirements Editorially scalable to a large number of articles

  9. Editorial Requirements Well-formatted storage of the content and presentation data

  10. UX Workshops Identified the typical journey of a news story

  11. UX Workshops Free-form control over layout is overwhelming, slow, and

    unnecessary

  12. UX Workshops Editing content inline for: 1. Context 2. Expediency

  13. Solutions "The layout customiser"

  14. None
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  17. Solutions "The cascade"

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  25. Solutions Maintaining accuracy of the preview

  26. None
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  28. Next Steps Scheduling layouts (for sections) Inline image editing REACT

    or ?...

  29. Want to see more? Come and see me

  30. John Blackbourn @johnbillion | humanmade.co.uk