ABOUT THE PROJECT

To coincide with the release of their newly redesigned literary magazine, The Paris Review retained Tierra to design and build a new website and content management system.

Tierra created the website design to complement the new look and feel of the magazine, deployed a custom content management system to streamline the publication of the magazine’s extensive content, and integrated a new e-commerce platform.

Once a static reflection of the magazine’s quarterly contents, the home page is now a dynamic place that features new and original content from the magazine and its blog, The Daily, which was launched this June.

The website highlights the depth and strength of The Paris Review’s archives:

• The magazine’s Interview series is now available online in full text.
• Readers can browse and search—for free—seven decades of conversations with fiction writers, poets, playwrights, memoirists, cartoonists, reporters, and more.
• The nearly two hundred back issues are also searchable by decade and year, and users can browse the complete archive by genre, accessing fiction, poetry, essays, art, and photography, as well as audio files.

New Subscriptions Process

Keeping pace with other peers in the publishing industry, The Paris Review asked Tierra to add automatically renewing subscription functionality to its e-commerce area. Tierra created custom CMS and e-commerce functionality tied to Paypal for the project.

Boosting print renewals and offering site users more options, the new functionality was also directly integrated with The Paris Review’s Salesforce.com account to provide streamlined CRM for its marketing and development initiatives.