The Maneater

I worked for The Maneater, the University of Missouri's semiweekly student newspaper, for the first three years of college. After years of having one overarching online editor, the paper split the job into an online content editor and an online development editor; I became the first person to hold the latter role.

The site runs on a custom CMS written in Django. I ported the site from an older version of that framework to a newer, backward-incompatible version, adding a host of new features and a new design (pictured above) in the process. (Since my tenure there, some design details have changed, but the overall organization is very similar.)

I designed the home page in particular to emphasize the paper's push toward continually producing online-only content to fill in the gaps between print issues; on most machines (especially on the MU campus), viewers should be able to see at least the beginning of the row of online-only teases on the first screen (i.e., without scrolling).

Other features I designed and implemented include blogs, an election information application, a video backend that ties into several online video hosting services and an internal resource for staff members that includes a copy of the paper's stylebook and useful contacts within the university and local government.