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Client Spotlight: Scout Magazine

1 Comment Tiny Bites ConsultingMarch 3, 2009

Scout Magazine

Last fall, Andrew Morrison of Urban Diner fame contacted Tiny Bites Consulting to help out on his new vision: an online magazine on Vancouver food, culture, life, and style.

Over a series of dinner meetings and meet-ups at the lounge in Boneta, we hammered out the specs for a WordPress-powered site with a heavily customized Revolution theme.  Scout had a number of goals, such as:

  • Building a large, loyal, local readership
  • Encouraging online conversations amongst readers and visitors
  • Maximizing ad revenue potential

In order to accomplish Scout’s objectives, Tiny Bites Consulting:

  • Helped in purchasing scoutmagazine.ca and hosting the site on Bluehost
  • Set up WordPress for site management and phpBB for forum management
  • Implemented the Scout’s bold, media-rich design to spec using PHP, HTML, and CSS
  • Created dynamic sidebars to allow adspace to be unique for the default view and each of the 4 topic categories
  • Showed how Twitter can be used to promote articles, distribute polls, attract a wider audience, and encourage conversation
  • Tested that the site looked good in the major browsers, mobile devices, and didn’t break in Internet Explorer 6

But don’t take our word for it.  Check out the site for yourself.

Visit Scout Magazine

Categories: Consulting, Featured, Our Clients, Web Development

Comments

One Response to “Client Spotlight: Scout Magazine”

  1. Sheldon on June 8th, 2009 3:39 pm

    Great work Karen – the scoutmag site looks edgy and current. I’ve let my foodie friends know about it!

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