PresaSM.ro – Local News Portal for Satu Mare County
Role: Web Design / Full-Stack Development / Platform Architecture
Project type: News Portal – Local Journalism
Website: presasm.ro
About the project
PresaSM is the most read and trusted news portal in Satu Mare County, dedicated to quality local journalism. The platform covers current events, investigations and reports, politics, lifestyle and weather information, providing readers with a modern media consumption experience.
The project involved building from scratch a high-performance publishing platform, optimised for large volumes of traffic and rapid content consumption - on both desktop and mobile.
Platform features
- Breaking News - alert system for breaking stories with visual badges
- Editorial Categories - Current affairs, Investigations and Features, Politics, Life & Style, Weather
- Save articles - bookmarking functionality for reading later
- Notifications system - alerts with a counter for new content
- Advanced search - full-text search across all articles
- Infinite scroll - continuous loading of articles on scroll
- Weather widget - real-time weather conditions for Satu Mare
- Button “Another News” - random navigation through articles for discovery
- Advertising system - management of header banners, sidebar and sponsored content
Design and UX
- Dark/Light mode - toggle with persistence in localStorage
- Mobile-first - bottom navigation bar on mobile, touch-friendly
- Card-based layout - articles with featured images and purple/pink gradients
- Lazy loading images - optimised loading with WebP support
- Schema.org structured data - SEO markup for Google News and rich snippets
- Modern design - clean interface with gradient accents, fully responsive
Tech Stack
- PHP 8 custom (without framework) - maximum performance for high volumes of traffic
- MySQL - database optimised for thousands of articles
- HTML5 / CSS3 - responsive layout, CSS Grid, Flexbox
- JavaScript vanilla - infinite scroll, lazy loading, theme toggle, notifications
- Google Analytics - traffic and reader behaviour monitoring
- Apache
The Result
A professional news portal that:
- Serves the largest readership in Satu Mare County
- Offers a fast and modern media consumption experience on any device
- Includes a complete system of breaking news, notifications and bookmarks
- Is optimised for SEO and Google News with structured data
- Supports monetisation through advertising with multiple banner zones
PresaSM.ro demonstrates OttoWeb's ability to build high-performance media platforms, with large volumes of content and traffic, while maintaining a smooth and modern user experience.