F I N F O C U S

About

FinFocus is a trusted provider of financial news and services for individuals and businesses alike.

With rising prices for essential goods and services, COVID impact, global inflation & local currency devaluation put a strain on households budgets and created significant implications for many families. FinFocus is a financial portal concept that provides latest insights on the news, access to the latest stock/shares values and crypto exchange rates.

User story

Project has been created with a user in mind - a finance novice interested in all things economics and finance.

As a financial novice interested in all things economics and finance to help strengthen my financial savings and investments portfolio, I want to:

• [x] Have access to financial articles for the latest insights
• [x] Search articles by keyword
• [x] Save top articles for later and access them anytime
• [x] Have the latest information for crypto exchange rates against USD
• [x] Get the latest stocks and shares updates
• [x] Find financial news categories
• [x] See live exchange status
• [x] Know about the financial news provider by accessing it's about and contact pages

Web app

Web application build with JavaScript/jQuery and Bootstrap for pages structure and featuring detailed and minimal responsive desing.

Features:

• [x] Easy to navigate financial news website
• [x] Pages: main, about, contact and terms.
• [x] Financial news rendered in several categories with featured articles
• [x] Add articles to favourites and retain them between refreshes
• [x] Search NY times financial articles by keywords
• [x] Full list of top articles in the aside section
• [x] Sliders with stock and crypto data (swiperjs)
• [x] Current date and weather display in the header
• [x] Sticky on page navigation
• [x] Footer on-site global navigation
• [x] On scroll animations on about and terms pages

Tools:

• Jquery
• Bootstrap
• Moment.js
• Swiper.js
• AOS
• PureCounter

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Future development plans

• Separate section for more stock display with filter and sorting options
• Integrate the option to search historical data for stocks and crypto
• Have an option to favourite selected crypto/stocks to follow
• Introduce another news API to expand the scope of news
• Add on-site search
• Live currency converter

Credits

• Bunny Fonts :rabbit2: The Barlow Project Authors & The Cormorant Project Authors
• FontAwesome

API

• NY Times
• Polygon.io
• OpenWeatherMap

Other

• MidJourney
• Unsplash
• @alexandrabatrak's endless attention to detail :ok_hand:

Contributors

Lost Mary development team:

• @alexandrabatrak Alexandra Batrak
• @mrBimsy Damian Rosiak
• @ademolaalashe Ademola Alashe

Licence

Licenced under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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