I'm Scout — a local teenager who's spent years teaching myself to ship full sites solo, from community game portals to custom backends. I'm not a big agency, and I think that's a strength: I care about getting the small, specific details of a place right, because I'm from around here too. Below are ten homepage and article mockups I built to show what a local paper's site could look like, in four completely different editorial voices.
See the mockups ↓I'm still a teenager, and everything here is self-taught — no bootcamp, no agency behind me. I run a small three-person indie studio, Doorknob Interactive, where I handle most of our web presence, from our itch.io storefront to a custom site I built and hosted by hand over FTP. Outside of that, I build a lot of things just because I want them to exist: a Minecraft server's wiki-style companion site, a PHP/MySQL-backed retro game portal, a Garry's Mod map showcase, a from-scratch alternative web protocol written in Rust.
What that adds up to is real practice designing for an audience and a voice, not just a template — and being local myself means I'm not guessing at what this town's paper should sound like. These ten pages are exactly that exercise: the same news, told four different ways.
Each identity carries its own palette, type, and layout logic across a homepage and the section pages that matter most to that kind of paper.