Project
PDF to Web
A large editorial publication transferred to clean, maintainable HTML/CSS, with the errors themselves becoming the spec.
PDF to Web is the transfer of a large editorial publication into clean, maintainable HTML and CSS. The source material was heavy, long, and full of edge cases, which made the errors themselves useful design information.
That is why the line for this project is literal: the errors became the spec. Every recurring problem taught the system how to become clearer. By the final chapters, the process had become stable enough that the last eight chapters required no corrections.
Status
The project is still in development as a client-facing editorial system, but it already proves the method: editorial complexity can be turned into maintainable web structure if the transfer process is treated as systems work rather than manual cleanup.