DNN.mn

What it is

dnn.mn is the website of Өдрийн сонин ("Daily News"), a Mongolian daily newspaper that printed its first issue on 10 March 1998 and has published more than 7,400 issues. The site is built with Next.js, in Mongolian. I was the front-end developer on it.

What I built

The subscription-based online reader: readers pay for access and read each new daily issue of the paper online, page by page, as it comes out. The pieces are:

• Issue library. A grid of daily issues, newest first, each with its front page and date, paged through the archive (hundreds of pages), with a date picker to jump to a day.
• Locked and unlocked issues. Issues show a lock until the reader has an active plan, and the sidebar says so ("you have no active plan").
• Saved issues. A reader bookmarks issues and finds them again under "Saved issues".
• Plans. An "Extend access" page to pick a plan and pay with QPay. The payment and the backend were built by another developer; I built the screens and connected them.
• Account area. A sidebar with the reader, saved issues and plans, plus links to the paper's Facebook page, help and feedback.

Work on the news site

On the public news pages I fixed several bugs and made smaller improvements. The public site has a lead story, a live list of the newest stories by category and time, tabs for new, featured and editorial pieces, search, columns, a weekly review and article pages with share buttons.