Our client aimed to supplement two successful print publications with websites that would reach a far wider audience than had access to the paper volumes. One of them was a long the trusted source for information on anthologized poems, which now serves researchers, librarians, writers of verse, students, teachers, and poetry lovers all over the globe with its highly cross-linked, interactive site.
Content Imperative
OBS designed, built, and hosted the first versions of this website in the 1990s.
The site features innovative business models; regular data updates made by the Press’s authors and editors; and administrative interfaces that help our client manage subscriptions, distribute usage reports, and otherwise serve its worldwide reference market.
OBS’s Role
- Creative consult
- Business model development
- Engineering legacy, proprietary, and open source code
- Production management
- Information design
- Programming
- Managed hosting