The Bennington Free Press
This is the website I made for the Bennington Free Press, my college’s newspaper. Although there is nothing nerdier than being part of the newspaper staff, I found this project to be my favorite; a derivation off of the portfolio builder setup, I made this system with the following features:
- Issues having a belongs_to relationship with Articles
- Flip-button changes for updating the entire website from the previous issue to the current one
- Site-wide search for all articles
- Ajax search for administrators
- Various user accounts and levels
- CSS layouts powered by the database for making an issue look nice for any given page.
- Thumbnail images linked to articles.
This project took me the better part of two weeks, and was probably the fastest turnaround on a project I’ve done. The site will soon have other features that I will get to in later months, namely layout optimization, SEO optimization, W3C compliance, more beautiful bouncy ajax setups, and some UI tweaking
