It’s been a big week here at Headup. At long last, after months of hard work, we’ve finally unveiled our Headup “Topic Pages“.
What are Headup topic pages?
Headup topic pages are a new and exciting way to help your audience explore the topics you cover on your blog.
How are they generated?
Like the Tabbed widgets you’re familiar with, the new Topic Pages are generated automatically for each of the topics Headup identifies in your content. They include all the data you’re familiar with from the Tabbed widgets, and much much more.
How are they displayed?
Headup Topic Pages can be linked and launched directly from your content, or connected via a “Snippet” widget, like the one we’ve installed on this blog (mouse-over the annotations in the demo text below to launch a Snippet).
“…For those of you who simply can’t get enough of Tim Burton, we have another treat from Alice in Wonderland for you. We’ve been given some new images which show, process by process how a piece of imagery goes from being filmed to being put onto a finished piece of film. To help demonstrate this, we’ve got progression art for The Knave of Hearts, The White Rabbit and the Red Queen. Alice in Wonderland is to be released by Disney 5th March and the global premier is set to take place in London with The Prince of Wales in attendance…” (Source: heyuguys.co.uk)
To access a Topic Page click the “More” link at the end of the summary in the snippet widget:
Clicking "More" launches a Topic Page
How can they be customized?
Headup Topic Pages can be customized to match your blog’s branding and show your blog’s articles as “Related Articles”.
The Headup publishers’ dashboard enables you to configure your Topic Pages to show your blog’s logo and coloring in the Topic Page header and display your own posts, or posts from any domain you choose, in the Related Articles section:
Topic Pages can be customized to match your branding & show your related posts (click to view full size)
We’d love to hear your feedback!
Initially available only to a select group of Alpha testers, we intend to release this new feature as an option for all Headup users VERY soon, and are eager to hear your feedback so give us a shout out @headup on Twitter, or leave a comment below and tell us what you think…