Carousel, new categories and Company profiles

Today I look into Company profiles over at TechCrunch and try to figure out how ipsCarousel works while mind mapping the new categories for the site. There are still some days left on this year, so let's make the most of it!

As I continue the planning for the site I look into CrunchBase from TechCrunch as inspiration for the Company database. Basically it is the tabbed design and some of the data fields I look at. I will start small and then build based on that I think. I have this idea that a user can add themselves to the company with the click of a button, but not sure how to actually do that. Yet. I will probably will start with something easier like directing the user to the people's database where they can connect their profile to a company.

ipsCarousel is the feature that make those nice sliders in most apps. It is a great feature, but also very much undocumented. This goes for a quite a bit over at IPS, so I am considering making some sort of database for that. At least for the templates it should be easy to make a list of attributes that can be used to help people get started. For ipsCarousel however I will look at making a block or two into sliders as I found a forum thread with some basic info and some example code:

<div class='ipsBox ipsSpacer_bottom'>
		<h2 class='ipsType_sectionTitle ipsType_reset'>{lang="featured_downloads"}</h2>
		<section id='elDownloadsFeatured'>
			<div class='ipsCarousel ipsClearfix' data-ipsCarousel data-ipsCarousel-fullSizeItems data-ipsCarousel-slideshow data-ipsCarousel-shadows='false'>
				<ul class='cDownloadsCarousel ipsClearfix' data-role="carouselItems">
					{{foreach $featured as $file}}
						{template="featuredFile" group="browse" app="downloads" params="$file"}
					{{endforeach}}
				</ul>
				<span class='ipsCarousel_shadow ipsCarousel_shadowLeft'></span>
				<span class='ipsCarousel_shadow ipsCarousel_shadowRight'></span>
				<a href='#' class='ipsCarousel_nav ipsHide' data-action='prev'><i class='fa fa-chevron-left'></i></a>
				<a href='#' class='ipsCarousel_nav ipsHide' data-action='next'><i class='fa fa-chevron-right'></i></a>
			</div>
		</section>
	</div>

This weekend I also went over the categories on the site and made a little mind map over the databases and sections using XMind. This is because I see that the IPS content will grow, and it is a niche that have potential for the future. I also see that I need to add a new section for Databases where I will place People, Companies and Roles. I have also mapped out Section specific databases like a hosting database, Atlassian App database, Management Frameworks database and so on.

2021 will be an exciting year for sure 🙂