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Magazine, knowledge base, news and subscriptions on one site — for a print business
Four things with different purposes, on one site
The magazine archive, a knowledge base, live news, and subscriptions. The first three exist to be read; the fourth exists to be bought. And the magazine is a print business — the site's job is not to replace print but to give readers enough that they subscribe to it.
The line between free and paid
Only part of the magazine goes online, and some of that is complete only for paying members; everyone else sees the opening sections. "The same article looks different to different people" is the norm here, not the exception. It also shapes SEO: the visible sections have to stand on their own as indexable content, not read as a sentence cut in half.
A subscription sells paper
What a reader receives is a printed magazine in the post, so the order has to reach dispatch. Online reading rights are one outcome of that transaction, not the whole of it.
They think in pictures, so I drew pictures
The most demanding part of this project was not the code but agreeing the layouts. The client needed to see screens to imagine it; structure diagrams did nothing for them. So rather than insisting on the way I find convenient, I produced the design screens first. Two months covered design and build, with the remainder spent loading content and revising. This is also the project that taught me to quote revision time up front: seeing a mockup never means the delivered thing looks exactly like it, and a schedule should allow for that.
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