Development Meeting Notes – 2/23/2012

Minutes
02/23/2012

Attendees

• Benj
• Joel
• Pea

Report-backs

Joel

• Blocks
  • Designs not finished
  • Need organized files

• Homepage about 60% done
  • Styled, but some things aren’t rendering yet

• Feed Widget not displaying correct content fields

• Featured image style – had an issue with styling correctly
  • Not displaying correct content fields

Benj

• Worked on View Config and Content Types – Video and QuickTabs are set up

• Footer blocks need to be dynamic

• Stay Informed field
  • Not sure how it’ll work
  • Plan to have it send to Civi

Minutes

Videos

• Media module is installed, but won’t be using for phase 1
• Videos will be embedded, managed from YouTube
• Look at Media Mover to help upload and process to YouTube and provide embed link for site
  • Would make it easier for content team to manage videos

Categories

• Need to have a drop-down menu with Categories (News, Editorial, Highlight, etc)
• Will be editable
• Should be required, but no default value

Feeds Widget

• Decision: Forego the image
• Will only display excerpt and time
• Widget will scroll – not sure if that’s natively possible with QuickTabs

Next Steps

• Additional meeting next week on Tuesday at 4pm.

Pea

• Provide image height/width
• Provide character limit for excerpt in field
• Add real feeds

Joel

• Fix Featured image style
• Finish setting up homepage and interior pages
  • 99% sure he’ll have this done by Tuesday

Benj

• Continue View Config and Content Types

Thiago

• Complete all comps
• And add some movement/life to the Contribute page (give it a some emotive quality)
• Organize final Illustrator and PNG files into a single folder once complete