Publishing services
Websites, apps and REAL Digital Editions to grow publishers' businesses
Websites and apps for Publishers
When we develop websites, we aim to deliver useful services to your customers fast! And then we keep adding features until your website or app is complete. We believe you should start reaping a return on your investment as soon as possible. That’s why we adopt a flexible development approach that allows us to get a subset of features live as soon as possible, based on your desires.
REAL Digital Editions
Through our partnership with X-Cago, we help publishers migrate from print native content straight to the web. The result is a fully featured and beautiful website – not just repurposed PDFs – delivered without large editorial and production workloads. An entire website can be automatically updated as your new print issues are delivered with minimal fuss delivering real web native websites.
Integrations
We solve problems digitally to get publishers thriving with digital processes and products. Integrations between internal systems, such as Salesforce and SAP, helps power your website with the correct entitlement and identity that your customers need. Digital marketing integrations with mail providers such as Hubspot boosts ROI. Integrating with Google Flexible Sampling means paywalled sites remain well ranked in Google without giving away content.
Bespoke software development
We'll work with you to develop a solution that delivers on your business goals – and more. Typically, the sites we build include a detailed taxonomy-led CMS, with grand editing and content construction tools for more complex layouts and special editions. Commerce features include flexible paywalls, payments and subscriptions, all tailored to meet your sales mission.
Social Image Generator
When sharing stories to social media the image used is usually taken from your articles. This results in unbranded media being used on the social platforms, meaning a wasted opportunity. With the Social Image Generator embedded on your site, your editorial images can be branded with your logo, and the headline added to the image shared for a completely branded sharing experience.
Hosting and support
We provide hosting for publishers either on our hosting platform or on your AWS, where we configure and run the AWS platforms with or for you using modern Devops (Hashicorp) technologies. You can be involved as much as you like, or trust us to keep everything running smoothly, safely and very fast – no matter where you or your customers are based.
Experienced in the publishing sector
Before we founded Full Fat Things, we came from companies like Trinity Mirror, now Reach, and The Economist, which served as training grounds for providing services to the publishing sector as a whole. Since then, we've worked with major players in the sector, so we understand the challenges you face.
Right tools for the job
We use established open source software as the foundation for everything we do. Our developers have a wealth of experience across many platforms including Drupal, Ruby on Rails, Laravel and Ember.js. While Drupal offers a great range of features for the publishing industry, we'll only recommend it if it's right for your needs.
Full service software development for publishers
Every organisation we work with is different and therefore so are their requirements. We work as part of your team to understand how you work, what you need and what your customers want. All of our solutions are built, reviewed and maintained in-house.