Website & content management

Afriklitt

Web Developer & Webmaster

A website on African literatures for Marie-Thérèse Mondombo, which she updates on her own through a simple editorial panel.

The need

Turn Afriklitt, a blog on African literatures started on Blogger in 2023, into a modern and fast website with its own domain, where the author can publish book fairs, interviews and articles herself, without any technical knowledge.

My contribution

As Web Developer & Webmaster, I designed, developed and published the website and I look after its maintenance. I migrated the content of the old blog (articles, photos and videos), defined the content model and a French-language editorial panel tailored to the client, and set up automated publishing on the afriklitt.com domain. VS Code, GitHub and AI-assisted development tools supported coding and iteration; I retained ownership of technical and product decisions.

What it offers

A responsive website with sections for book fairs and festivals, interviews, articles and “coups de cœur”, training, workshop and moderation offers, YouTube videos and a contact form. Content is managed in Sanity Studio: every publication automatically triggers a new Astro build, deployed to GitHub Pages in about two minutes.

The result

A live, fast static website with no server or database to maintain. The client publishes independently, the site updates itself, and the history of the original blog has been preserved.

Afriklitt · afriklitt.com