Summer Internship Opportunity

BookGlutton.com (located in downtown Urbana) has a few internship opportunities available. Their our main product is an online reading platform that allows people to chat and share annotations inside books. It’s a great opportunity for students to learn about web design and development for static and social networking areas of web design, as well as learn a bit about the cutting edge of publishing. There are 3 positions available (12-16 hours a week): (1) PRODUCTION DEVELOPER: An opportunity to learn about production processes for web development, including exposure to project management, image cropping and manipulation, and HTML editing. We’ll be producing some books in XHTML/EPUB (also known as Adobe Digital Editions format) so this is an opportunity to see how publishing’s new format is structured and manipulated. Activities: edit and create online books by tweaking xhtml and css, some graphics production, site editing and management of the social network. Skills: xml/html, familiarity with PHP preferred but not required. (2) DIGITAL BOOK DESIGNER/GRAPHIC DESIGNER: An opportunity to design elements for an unusual aspect of web design: ebooks. Beyond designing digital book elements  students also have exposure to processes for web development, including exposure to project management, image cropping and manipulation. Some ad design or print collateral may be possible depending on student interests. Activities: design elements of online books, particularly dropcaps and header treatments and work on digital book layout. Lend a hand designing ads for clients or HTML newsletters as needed. Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator and familiarity with web design standards. InDesign experience preferred but not required. (3) CSS/FRONTEND DEVELOPER: An opportunity to learn about production processes for web development, including exposure to project management, site migration and internal code management; also an opportunity to work on a social networking site and get involved in new feature development. Studentswill get a chance  to be a key figure in the deployment ofbookglutton’s mobile site: a good chance to get iphone and gphone experience. Activities: make regular site updates and bug fixes as needed, and play a big role in testing and deploying the mobile versions of the site. If you’ve got facebook experience or are interested we would consider assigning some of the FB app development to you. Skills: must be extremely good with CSS and HTML, somewhat familiar with javascript. To apply for these internship, contact: Travis Alber <travis.alber@gmail.com>. To receive credit at Parkland for the internship, contact Paul Young <pyoung@parkland.edu>