Fox International Portal

Fox Entertainment Group needed an international web portal that could showcase their full library of movies and TV titles, drive Digital HD, Blu-ray, and DVD sales, and be managed independently by local teams across multiple countries — all from a single codebase. I joined the project at Trailer Park as the lead front-end developer on a small team and owned the entire client-side experience from the homepage down to individual title pages.

Title

Lead Front-End Developer

Context

Small team at Trailer Park, building for Fox Entertainment Group.

Scope

Led all front-end development — JavaScript interactivity, CMS integration, mobile-responsive layout. Back-end/CMS teammates owned Yii/PHP.

Fox needed a single portal that could serve audiences across multiple countries while letting regional teams control their own content — different titles, different release dates, different retailer partnerships — without touching code. At the same time, the site had to handle a wide range of content types: hero carousels promoting current theatrical releases, structured catalog grids for TV seasons, multi-tab movie detail pages with purchase flows, and promotional campaign tiles, all on a CMS-editable foundation.

• Homepage hero carousel

  Problem

  Theatrical releases needed a homepage moment that drove people into titles.

  Fix

  Full-bleed hero with dots, directional controls, and smooth transitions.

  Result

  Current releases had a clear path to their title pages.

• Multi-tab detail pages

  Problem

  Movie and TV pages had to cover info, Digital HD, Blu-ray, and DVD without clutter.

  Fix

  Multi-tab pages with their own sub-nav and content zones.

  Result

  Each format had a dedicated place without dumping everything on one screen.

• Digital HD purchasing

  Problem

  Retailer availability differed by country and couldn't be hardcoded.

  Fix

  A CMS-driven retailer grid — iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Xbox, Sky Store, and others. Hardest JS problem: per-region, per-title store lists from CMS without hardcoding.

  Result

  Each title showed the right stores for that region.

• Photo slider

  Problem

  Cast and production stills had no structured place on title pages.

  Fix

  A photo slider on movie detail pages.

  Result

  Imagery was browsable without leaving the title.

• Promotional campaign tiles

  Problem

  Regional teams needed campaign modules they could configure themselves.

  Fix

  CMS-configurable tiles for campaigns like Bond and Bridge of Spies.

  Result

  Local teams could run franchise campaigns without engineering.

• TV catalog grid

  Problem

  A large TV-to-own catalog needed a consistent, scalable layout.

  Fix

  A large-format grid with consistent cards and metadata.

  Result

  Many titles displayed uniformly instead of as one-off layouts.

• Responsive CMS foundation

  Problem

  Regional teams couldn't update content, imagery, or retailers without engineering.

  Fix

  Mobile-responsive Yii MVC site with a CMS for content, images, and retailer grids.

  Result

  Non-technical regional teams owned their country's site.

Shipped on deadline for Fox's international theatrical and marketing beat — portal live across multiple regions. CMS gave regional teams autonomy over content; no traffic metric claimed.