Los Altos Town Crier

Front Page
Front Page

The  web site for the Los Altos Town Crier, the local newspaper for the hometowns of Silicon Valley satisfied to major requirements –  provided clear information architecture for newspaper readers and automated workflow for the publisher.

Front page presented cover story, selected articles in featured sections, weekly poll and quick access to all sections in the current issue.  Each article had a set of social bookmarks and easy navigation for other sections of the site.  In addition to  database search and Google search, the site had yearly/monthly archives, individual issue’s archives, which significantly augmented historical searches.

“Los Altos Online”  section provided listings of local businesses and organizations, maps, directions, etc.

Weekly issue is generated from the xml generated by printing/publishing software (Quark/InDesign) from the files ready for the printer, thus ensuring consistency between .

Classified section was generated from the xml exported directly from PRE1-SmartPublisher by customizing settings for FileMakerPro. GoogleAds were located  in the sidebars in several sections.  Banner and tile ads were sold for each section of the site.

A Complete Issue
A Complete Issue
Individual Article
Individual Article
Yearly Archives
Yearly Archives

Stanford Report

The main goal of this project for the Stanford Report was development and implementation of the automated processing of Word articles into InDesign documents for the press and xml documents for the web. It included workflow automation using AppleScript, InDesign templates with Style-to-Tag xml mapping, XML/XSLT to pre-process xml files for import into content management system, training procedures and documentation.

Tools: InDesign,  XML/XSLT,  AppleScript, custom content management system

Completed in  2004, currently in operation