Blog development

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The page must be created as a sub-directory, rather than as a sub-domain, because search engines would treat the former as a separate entity from the main domain. This means that you’ll still have to focus on optimizing your main domain in order to maintain keyword relevance and high search rankings and any links which point to your sub-domain and help boost its SEO will not help improve the SEO of your main domain, which defeats the purpose of having a blog in the first place.

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Follow this tutorial.

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Search functionality is desirable but not necessary. It's sufficient to display the list of articles in reverse chronological order and allow the list to be filtered by tag, if that's not difficult to implement.

If search functionality is implemented (using Algolia), it will be limited to the blog page, replacing the tag filter list. Refer to this tutorial for details.

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For the Blog section, these are the options to display the tags:

Option 1

GSAP timeline animation with hashtags positioned using the grid system that scale as they fade in (example). Making them clickable is an option but that might distract the user from proceeding to the remaining sections. Having just a 'View archive' button is deemed sufficient.

Option 2: Infinite scroll

Option 3: Background video