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slug: portal-improvements
title: Butter Box Portal Improvements
authors: [ana]
tags: [development,portal]
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As part of our latest development project with the Guardian Project team, we have re-engineered the Butter Box portal interface. This post describes the design choices and improvements within the new portal.

Previously, the interface was a static site built with Jekyll, which offered no customisation options and was ill-suited for the portal’s dynamic requirements. It has now been replaced with a Python Flask application, a lightweight framework that allows developers to include only the necessary libraries, such as for localisation, minimising the application’s footprint.

[Read the full post on the SR2 blog](https://www.sr2.uk/posts/2026-butter-box-portal/)