Project description
So we want that library on our own site, in a section built to be read and to be found. A list of articles with categories and tags, author cards with a short bio and everything that person has written, related reading at the end of each piece, search inside the section, a subscription form for new articles, a table of contents pinned beside long reads, an honest reading-time estimate, structured markup so search engines understand what the page is, and preview cards that look correct when someone drops a link into a messenger.
Inside, our staff needs an editor they will not fight with: write, attach a cover, pick a category, set the author, save a draft, and get a clear refusal if a required field is missing rather than a half-empty page going live. We do not need a publishing empire; we need one section that works properly on a phone and keeps working when there are three hundred articles in it instead of thirty.
What we expect in the scope:
— article list with categories and tags, paging and sensible sorting;
— author cards: photo, short bio, list of that author's articles;
— related materials block at the end of every article;
— search within the section, including by tag;
— subscription to new articles, confirmed by a letter to the address given, with an unsubscribe link in every letter we send;
— side table of contents for long reads, reading-time estimate, share buttons;
— structured markup for search engines and correct preview cards for messengers;
— editor for our staff with required-field validation before publishing;
— images only from sources that grant the right to use them, never pulled out of an image search;
— a draft must not be reachable by a direct link before it is published, and we want that verified as a separate check, not assumed;
— responsive layout, readable typography, decent loading speed on mobile.