Note: The Carrboro Citizen is now using Citizen Press, a free, open-source news theme framework that I designed for WordPress.
The Carrboro Citizen is a weekly newspaper that serves the town of Carrboro, NC. The paper uses WordPress to run its website. I designed and built this site as part of a school project during the Fall of 2007. It was my very first attempt at building a newspaper theme on the WordPress platform, and I learned much in the process.
The Carrboro Citizen used this design for 2 and a half years (December 2007- March 2010). It won a NC Press Association Award for General Website Excellence in 2008 (3rd place) and 2009 (first place).
In March of 2010, around the date of the paper’s third anniversary, The Carrboro Citizen switched to a beta version of Citizen Press, an open-source newspaper theme framework that I built as part of a school project.
