This week saw the launch of the Haymarket Media group website practicalcaravan.com.
The new practicalcaravan.com was built in close partnership with the Practical Caravan team at Haymarket Media Group.
Platform: allow for "default" index pages so that URLs do not need to end in for example "view" or "find" and instead can end in a simple "/"
We needed to organise our development sprints, we could not find the perfect solution... so we built our own.
releasing updates to our Platform roughly every three weeks.
Trac has been our main organisational tool but we needed something to help us work as a team and communicate with our clients.
We looked at various 3rd party products such as Jira, agile zen, Planbox, Mavenlink & Pivotal Tracker. They all have great features and could work well especially using them from the start of a project.
We realised that the Tribalogic Platform could be moulded into a great agile development tool so we set about making some changes that would let this happen.
In the Admin Console, we added "dev tickets" into the user menu.
Our clients can now view the tasks that we are doing from them right within the Platform Admin Console that they log into every day.
The clever bit is that we have done it in such a way that we can now easily place all sorts of things in the user menu if we choose... which may come in handy later.
To visualise our weekly sprints, we created a Sprint Board.
As a software company, we are in the advantageous position of having the resources to build our own project management tools. We can refine and alter them as we see fit.
As the expression goes we are "eating our own dog food" on a daily basis so that will force us to refine our interfaces which will have direct benefits to our clients.
The Platform allows the public to leave reviews with star ratings against Entry listings on your Tribalogic website.
Filter and export user reviews from the Admin Console.
It is now also possible to export your User Reviews in Excel format.
Improvements to our Platform mean that updates to content will, in most cases, now be published instantly.
The Tribalogic Platform has a secure Admin Console that allows a variety of access levels for updating listings.
Caching is a way to present web pages faster.
To aid performance, we used to have a cache that expired after roughly two hours for all content - meaning that updates applied in the Admin Console may take that long to appear on your website.