{"id":1165,"date":"2015-07-06T12:45:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T16:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2016-06-10T13:56:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T17:56:50","slug":"the-chronicles-of-building-the-new-edtoa-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/dev\/the-chronicles-of-building-the-new-edtoa-website\/","title":{"rendered":"The chronicles of building the new EdTOA website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I created this category to document the process of building our new website. It&#8217;s a bit self serving, but I had a lot of fun throughout this process and I wanted to write it all down. I didn&#8217;t include every tear shed, but it does give you an idea of what we planned and how it shaped up. \ud83d\ude42<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Back in July of 2015 was when we got serious about building a new site. I put together a rough idea of the steps I thought could be accomplished in order to roll out a new site and a new brand for EdTOA. The brand part was pretty much a separate process and if you are interested, I wrote another post about that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/redesigning-the-edtoa-logo\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, at the start of July 2015 I met with Emily Trapp (our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/organization\/executive-committee\/\">Membership Council Chair<\/a>) to discuss what we could do with our current site. It was at that time we decided to abandon the current site and only do minimal updates. We came up with a plan.<\/p>\n<p>I sent out the this email:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1167 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Initial-Website-Plan.png\" alt=\"Initial Website Plan\" width=\"640\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Initial-Website-Plan.png 640w, https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Initial-Website-Plan-300x115.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everyone approved and we were off.<\/p>\n<p>Next, a lot of planning happened. Of course you&#8217;re reading this on the final website, so a lot of work went into that, but getting there was the fun part.<\/p>\n<p>Before starting on the website you are currently viewing, we polled our members about what they wanted\/needed from a new website. I certainly didn&#8217;t want to spend a bunch of time working on a new site that offered functionality that we didn&#8217;t need. I also didn&#8217;t want to spend a lot of time working on a site that lacked some big function that I hadn&#8217;t thought of.<\/p>\n<p>So, the form below was our starting point.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1gyPufyy_XEDppFxb75InZcIBOEZxeWKjCSxo3oRQbI4\/viewform?embedded=true\" width=\"760\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\">Loading&#8230;<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After step 1, everything else just kinda fell into place. It would be several months before I was able to dedicate some time to the project as I was also juggling work but from time to time I would come back to work on some ideas, discuss with the team where I was and what I thinking. From the beginning I was pretty certain I wanted to build on WordPress but there was some talk of other CMSs. Eventually I did choose WordPress for our CMS and within the next few months I stood up a development site on my own server (for reasons I&#8217;ll get into in the next part. \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/the-development-site-is-live\/\">Step 2 &#8211; All the headaches<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I created this category to document the process of building our new website. It&#8217;s a bit self serving, but I had a lot of fun throughout this process and I wanted to write it all down. I didn&#8217;t include every tear shed, but it does give you an idea of what we planned and how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/dev\/the-chronicles-of-building-the-new-edtoa-website\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The chronicles of building the new EdTOA website<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-dev-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtoa.suny.edu\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}