Home (Jennifer). I stuck in a new Hero image… not sold on it, but sick of looking at the old one!
Who We Are (Nancy): Good to go!
Board (Deb): Looks good. DELETED the line saying when Board Meetings are (assuming not open to public) and ADDED the Board Meeting Schedule to the Foundation page in the MGs area. Also ADDED to this page an ‘Action Arrow’ to Contact Us.
What We Do (Jennifer): Youth Activities…JM, where did you get this info? I cannot find it. Do you have a formal Youth Program? If not, we should probably delete? Workshops + Articles: I think we should condense these into ONE block and call it either “Learn with Us” or (Mike’s Preference) Gardening Resources…. then give a summary paragraph on the new treatment that Alice has put together and link to that page.
Annual Plant Sale (Deb) Looks good. But. The grey block is at ‘Thank You’ stage, which is fine if you launch by Labor Day, but when do you all actually start dividing natives, etc to start the process again? If it is Oct (like Pierce) you are nearing the update to “It’s time to start gearing up for next year’s Plant Sale”.
In the Garden (Nancy): Good to go! This is your big launch event, right? We should also copy the promo Block onto the Home Page.
Raised Bed Program (Jennifer): Good to go! Only suggestion is to start getting pictures of the gardens of previous winners. Would be great to add to the page shots of what’s growing in some of the previous years’ winners plots.
Demonstration Gardens (Jennifer): Needs to be finished…
Plant and Insect Clinic (Alice): I shrunk & edited the “Three Ways” block. Also: Q: Alice, is there enough similarity between How to Collect plant samples & How to collect plant samples for Plant Id to combine these two? If so, you are at an even number and could just have two columns of two or one column of 4… something to consider.
Speakers (Alice): Dorked with the format a bit…. BUT, Alice: you have 3 cols of content, two very long ones and one very short ‘Fruits‘ , could you combine fruits & veggies into one… then two columns across the page will make both of them shorter. Your call.
Learn with Us (Alice):This is a great page, Alice…. I know how hard it is to sift through the volumes of information and to sort it into something that is easy to understand. I think you did it! My only comment is on naming…. I’m warming to doing away with “Learn with Us” but like the simple “Gardening Resources (Videos?) to keep it compact on the menu line. But I don’t feel strongly about any of it. Whatever you think is best.
How to Help (Al):
Donate: Alice was going to update the text on the CheddarUp page, I think.
Contact Us (Mike): Do you use the Extension Office address for the Foundation, too? I added this to the Footer.
Speakers Bureau Contact: Alice
Plant Info Clinic Contact: Alice
MGs:
Home: Jennifer
Foundation: Nancy. Are Foundation Board Meetings in person or via zoom? Need to update the Dashboard > Event to give that information…. if in person, connect the Venue to the Event.
Plant Sale: Deb
Clinic Info: Alice
Steps to take to ‘Go Live’:
Go To Dashboard > Settings > Reading and uncheck the box “discourage search engines from indexing this site” you are now LIVE!….. BUT…
You also want to redirect the traffic going to https://www.cowlitzcomg.com so you will need to contact the hosting company to apply the appropriate redirects. Craig Lawrence can give you the settings you need. Once given this info, I’m betting Alice will know how to do it. But if not, Craig is here to help!
That’s it… you are up and running.
Administrative Clean-up (independent of going live):
New Members Area reviewed… and new pages assigned (above). Completing these pages will require jumping back and forth from the Current Site Members Area and then mapping appropriate files to the new site. Use your judgment if you think a file doesn’t need to come across. If something is no longer relevant, just drop it.
“Learn with Us” information from Current Site: Mike & Alice to meet July 30th to figure out best design for this info.
Add ‘Donate‘ page (is that what you want to call it?) Once those are done, then I believe we’re ‘all done’ except for filling in content on pages…
Page specific Q&A
Session 7: August 12th
Target ‘Go-Live’ is Thursday, August 28th. To get there:
Between Aug 5th and 12th, everyone shoot to complete their Public Facing pages.
Aug 12th to 19th: Mike will do ‘final pass’ on Public Facing while Team focuses on completing all Members Area pages
Note to Nancy: please work with Jen, Alice et al tuning your ICS plug-in so that they can present subsets of Events (e.g. just Workshops) on their related pages. May require Stephanie to add a ‘Tag’ (or equivalent) on her side.
Session 8: August 19th
Check where we are and decide if August 28th is realistic Go Live date.
