Africartoons.com has a simple mis­sion — to tell the world the story of Africa and its people through the eyes of some of South Africa’s greatest polit­ical and edit­or­ial car­toon­ists. Featuring the work of such not­ables as Zapiro, Jeremy Nell, Madam & Eve and Dr Jack, Africartoons.com sets itself out to be one of the fore­most sites on the web for the fun­nier side of African events.

Designed by web agency digit­alJUNGLE, I was asked to trans­form their designs into a fully real­ised web­site. As well as build­ing the XHTML and CSS aspects of the site, I also worked heav­ily on the CMS integ­ra­tion, using Drupal as the base and devel­op­ing sev­eral cus­tom mod­ules to get the most out of the site. Highlights include dynam­ic­ally cre­ated RSS feeds for the vari­ous car­toon­ists’ works, a mobile ver­sion of the site, sev­eral javas­cript wid­gets to share con­tent on other sites, and integ­ra­tion with sev­eral social media web-apps, such as Facebook, Twitter and youTube.

Upon the site’s lunch, the site has grown con­sid­er­ably, with  South African car­toon­ists applaud­ing the site’s vis­ion and upload­ing their new­est car­toons daily, as well as the Nelson Mandela Trust using the site to cel­eb­rate Mandela’s 20 Years of Freedom.

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