The Charlotte Mercury
Coverage (8 articles)
Why The Charlotte Mercury Changed Its Type
We Built Our Own, No. 20. The Charlotte Mercury got new type on October 9, chosen for reading rather than looks. The research says no font fits everyone, so the size is now the reader's to set.
Mercury Local Government Pages Now Fill Themselves In
We Built Our Own, No. 19. If somebody has to remember to update a page, it's going to go stale. So we stopped typing the page.
One Codebase Runs Sixteen Publications
We Built Our Own, No. 14. A new publication is a row in a table and a DNS record.
One Database for Every Mercury Local Publication
We Built Our Own, No. 13. Every article, page, person, transcript and image, in one place.
Mercury Local Page Speed: 542 Milliseconds to 208
We Built Our Own, No. 09. 542 milliseconds to 208. Measure before you optimize.
One Email Send Path for Every Mercury Local Domain
We Built Our Own, No. 04. One send path for every domain. No tracking sold to anyone.
Mercury Local's WordPress Migration in Two Weeks
We Built Our Own, No. 02. 813 articles, 7,124 images, one platform. Built by one publisher and an AI.
Leaving Three WordPress Blogs Behind
We Built Our Own, No. 01. Where Mercury Local started, and why it could not stay there.
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Charlotte Council Approves Both Faith in Housing Rezonings.
Council Member LaWana Mayfield, the architect of Charlotte's Faith in Housing initiative, voted against a Faith in Housing petition Monday night. Both rezonings passed. The second carried on the bare minimum: six yes votes, no mayor in the chair.