MaineToday Media
Maine’s largest media company, MaineToday Media, came to 10up with a bold vision and a tight timeline. The plan? To launch a redesigned flagship news site and create a new regional site. The new responsive platform would be built on WordPress and would combine content from the print publications with additional digital assets (galleries, videos) and high-impact interactive […]
Maine’s largest media company, MaineToday Media, came to 10up with a bold vision and a tight timeline. The plan? To launch a redesigned flagship news site and create a new regional site. The new responsive platform would be built on WordPress and would combine content from the print publications with additional digital assets (galleries, videos) and high-impact interactive pieces developed specifically for the web.
Collaborating with MaineToday Media, 10up’s project team first engineered a responsive parent theme and child theme—based on MaineToday Media’s design—with multiple complex layouts and galleries, carousels, and other interactive widgets enabling a high degree of customization with limited technical expertise required.
The team then focused on architecting and developing a set of custom curation capabilities appropriate to a modern digital media organization, allowing editors to create custom home pages, section fronts, and special topic pages by choosing a combination of a set of intelligent, flexible content components: