Background
Cover is a blog and magazine created by Oscar Rosas and myself to continue in the entertainment media coverage and in collaboration with Oliver Communications and Media, who used the channel for advertisement, promotion and inbound marketing strategies for their clients and in-house projects.
Core: Wordpress (PHP 7.4 / HTML5 / CSS3 / JS)
Other Technologies:
- VUE.js for custom components
- AWS S3 for media storage
- Custom event tracking for Google Analytics
- Facebook Comments and app integration
- Facebook Flash Articles
- AMP Articles / Stories / Gallery
Home page (left) and category view (right): The website focused completely on viral-capable content, supported on image girds, social feeds and dynamic post sections (Trending, Hot and Highlights).
Author view: Cover allows to focus on the magazine authors, allowing to create brand characters that people can identify and empathize with.
Single Post: The mobile-first layout featured a borderless side-to-side featured image along with touch focused navigation and social sharing, including deep-linking for mobile version and progressive app).
Rich Post Content: Polls, Hot-or-not, Swipeable Gallery, Videos, Slider reveal images; Snax assets were integrated to allow rich interactive, trendy and innovative content to be within blog posts as a tool to bring users a great user experience.
Classic Print-Like Blog Post: Using Wordpress native editor capabilities along with Snax Editor add-ons, blog posting was easy to create and edit and yet eye-catching for users. This combinations even allowed us to create AMP Posts for Facebook Flash Articles, also including Snax rich post assets..
Mobile Version (Home / Collection / Post): The website is fully responsive allowing a full functionality in any mobile device.
Notifications: Using OneSignal API, browser and progressive app notifications were enabled for updates, advertising and transactional purposes.
Web Progressive App: Responsive UI and functionality compatibility allows the site to be installed as a native App in all Android and iOS devices.