{"id":1153,"date":"2017-10-18T19:12:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T19:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2017-10-18T19:12:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T19:12:56","slug":"interlitq-a-review-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/publishing\/interlitq-a-review-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Interlitq: A Review in Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An activity I&#8217;ve undertaken this year is to modernize the design and digital strategy of <a href=\"http:\/\/interlitq.org\/\">Interlitq, The International Literary Quarterly<\/a>. We&#8217;re approaching the 10th anniversary of Interlitq with the <a href=\"http:\/\/interlitq.org\/issue1\/index_issue1.php\">first issue<\/a> appearing online in November 2007. A lot has changed on the web in the past decade, but the design and technical architecture of the site is showing its age. As I work on this project, I&#8217;ll be posting here updates that describe the redesign process. This is not simply a visual redesign but also a technical redesign of the underlying architecture.<\/p>\n<p>Before embarking on the visual redesign, there are several technical steps to be taken:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Establish a working repository of text files. (All existing content are contained in individual PHP files.)<\/li>\n<li>Convert files from existing php to a more manageable text file structure, e.g., Markdown.<\/li>\n<li>Determine information architecture based on content types, desired functionality, and forward compatibility.<\/li>\n<li>Examine other online literary journals for ideas about redesign, and identify key elements that are desired in the redesign.<\/li>\n<li>Determine platform for the new site, most likely WordPress though that also requires determining if the platform should be multisite WordPress where each journal issue is a separate WP site. Some online journals have taken this approach.<\/li>\n<li>Setup a test server.<\/li>\n<li>Prototype design. Revise as needed.<\/li>\n<li>Import content into test server.<\/li>\n<li>Start implementation of new design in a restricted sandbox.<\/li>\n<li>Fully test new design.<\/li>\n<li>Import most recent content from current site into new system.<\/li>\n<li>Migrate design and content from test server to product server.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A lot of steps with many details missing from the above list. Fortunately, I love working on this type of project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An activity I&#8217;ve undertaken this year is to modernize the design and digital strategy of Interlitq, The International Literary Quarterly. We&#8217;re approaching the 10th anniversary of Interlitq with the first issue appearing online in November 2007. A lot has changed on the web in the past decade, but the design and technical architecture of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}