Code and Design

Details about our site and why it works.

Global Voices and it's satellites are currently maintained, developed and designed by Jeremy Clarke with support and input from everyone in the community.

Wordpress and Open Source

Global Voices is proudly powered by the open source blogging tool WordPress. We use a variety of public and internally designed plugins to extend and specialize our many sites, and depend on the many volunteer programmers who make WordPress and it's plugins possible. Thanks!

Design

The site was designed and implemented by Boris Anthony and Jeremy Clarke, based on extensive dialogue with every level of the Global Voices community and team, from the volunteer contributors, editors and founders.

The green icon in our logo is based on a West African symbol called “mpatapo” that stands for reconciliation, peacemaking and pacification. More info.

The Maps

gv map system thumbnail The gorgeous mapping system which now graces the site was developed with the outstanding help of Mike Migurski from Stamen Design and their Modest Maps library. The maps use tiles generated from the excellent open source NASA Blue Marble: Next Generation satellite imagery, as well as outlines and silhouettes generated from freely available shapefiles.

Hosting

Server hosting for GVO is handled by RimuHosting, who have always treated us well. Under the hood we use the CentOS operating system, Apache web server and MySQL database server.

Special Thanks

Patrick Tanguay - For sharing his CSS wisdom when we needed it most.
Shawna Nelles - For help and inspiration designing the Rising Voices logo.