Fix Your Tumblr Page

 

I was hired to fix up a tumblr website of Minorities in Publishing through a mutual friend, a podcast that focuses on the voices of the global majority. I like projects like this; You give voice to typically excluded people and find interesting books to read.

So, what was the issue?

😬The old website was dated, with an impersonal, grey aesthetic, having last been updated circa 2012 or so.

😬It wasn't optimized for smaller viewports. What is a viewport? When you adjust your browser window (on desktop or mobile) to be bigger or smaller.

😬 It couldn't be easily updated with new information; The old code was no longer maintained.

While a lot of the feed functionality has been eliminated, I;

📙 Fixed outdated side pages of links while providing a template that improved workflow, so they could easily update the pages.

📘 Improved navigation; Instead of linking to individual MP3s, I directed the 'Episodes' link to head to their libsyn library, so people can play them on their player of choice.

📗 Brought the team up to speed on how modern Tumblr works with documentation in the form of videos.

📒 Installed a new theme (There’s credit on the site to the original creator) and made a style guide, with hex codes for colors (and alternative options)

Check out the live Tumblr page here.

You can find the video comparing the previous and the current version here;

(It's a [soundless] video about the differences, helped by the WayBack Machine)