It’s been almost year since we started the new Huyton Web Services website and today marks the last section, Articles, going live. Phase 3 of the website was all about the Articles, but just adding an articles section is not the full story, there is so much more adding articles in.
Phase 3
For phase 3 we decided we would need design and development for:
- Articles section – a page showing all the articles in date order. We should have a ‘Topic filter’.
- A block for ‘Featured articles’ on the articles page.
- A block for ‘Important articles’ on the articles page.
- Article page showing the full article.
- Comment form allowing a comment to be saved to the database with no account needed to comment, we want it simple for visitors.
- Comment section on an article showing all comments for that article in date order.
- Article Topics so we can tag an article with a topic.
- Topic page showing all the articles with a specific topic.
- Topics page showing all types of article.
- Profile page for each Author including bio and photo.
- Authors page with info about all authors.
As you can see by the above list there was quite a lot going into this section and in a lot of ways this is the most important part of the website. For example, it will be the part of the site that will have most content, it should be the most relatable and should be the most up to date.
Next steps
Going forward we will try to add a new article every week so there should be lots of new content on the way including technical, tutorials, news on important web updates and business articles on what we are doing.
That’s not all though, we will be developing the website with new features and updates you’ll see, and in the background, there will be lots of changes you won’t see (refactoring) we’ll make to the website to keep it running smoothly, securely and performant.
Finally
We have some ideas of articles we would like to add but if you have anything you want making into an article let us know with a comment or on the contact page.