NOTE: Planned technical/backend maintenance of web server between 1:15-1:30 on Thursday Jan 12. The web server will still be running, not an service outage.
The Web Team met in front of 101 Market Street on Wed Jan 11, 2011 at 6:30pm.
Redesign
- Jane wants to redesign the front page to have static content and to scrap the “About”, “Get Involved” pages.
- Rachel and Yas say “About” needed to educated people about Occupy, “Get Involved” is equally important.
- Susan wants more in-depth information, more content in “About” etc.
- No consensus on front page/menu redesign
- Jane provided content update for “Get Involved” page and will email occupysfweb with the welcoming committee link
Web Site Survey Announce
- Sarah P is heading user survey on the web site (audience analysis, user stories, expectations etc.. )
- Heather + Susan interested in participating, will contact Sarah
- Robb suggested using “Bright Ideas” as a platform
Educational content
- Feedback from various people that we don’t have enough educational content
- Maria and Rachel will go to GA tomorrow and call out for people to write richer, text based content and more educational content
- This activity is more centered around Media rather than Web team
-Uncertainty about how to write neutral content might be a reason why people are more comfortable shooting video rather than writing content
WordPress issues
- Maria says the server is slow, she has gotten 404s before, sometimes WordPress loses your content
- Prevent content loss by clicking “Save Draft” while you are writing posts.
- Need to schedule an update, don’t want to upgrade the server too close to J20
- User cache problems reported by Amy/Jane.. Web team working on this. Still open.
- Rachel suggested writing a script/cron to delete the cache
