Jonathan Mcglone
Front End Developer And UI Designer at University of Michigan
Greater Detroit Area United States
Summary
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SeniorJonathan Mcglone is a Front End Developer and UI Designer with 13 years of experience blending academic library expertise with practical web development to advance open-access scholarly publishing. Based in the Greater Detroit Area, he designs accessible, usable interfaces and digital publishing workflows for academic publishers and currently serves as managing editor of the Journal of Electronic Publishing. At the University of Michigan he delivers front-end solutions—ranging from Bootstrap migrations to Jekyll-powered sites—while prioritizing a11y and pragmatic design. He champions emerging and non-traditional publishing models, translating complex editorial needs into maintainable, user-centered interfaces. Beyond his institutional role, his GitHub work shows hands-on craftsmanship in front-end theming and static-site tooling that improves both form and function.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
site-design10
website-design10
bootstrap10
jekyll-theme9
jekyll9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jmcglone/jmcglone.github.io
May 2013 - Jan 2023
Data for jmcglone.com. Includes customization of Bootstrap 3.0. Blog and pages generated by Jekyll. Hosted on GitHub.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 380 commits, 17 PRs in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the front-end development and styling of the website. They implemented layout changes, corrected typos in HTML, and integrated a custom stylesheet. A major focus was migrating the site to Bootstrap 3, adding new styles for better visual presentation. The user also styled and enhanced the appearance of the swatches and blog posts.
bootstrap3-themebootstrap-3hostedbootswatchjekyll
mlibrary/fulcrum-epub-spec
Dec 2018 - Mar 2022
Public documentation and resources for the creation of Fulcrum compliant EPUBs with additional specifications for EPUB accessibility.
Contributions:66 commits, 1 PR, 68 pushes in 3 years 2 months
compliantadditionalspecificationsepubcreation
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