Website rebuild working group weekly meeting

Attendees

• Ruth Cheesley
• Mike Van Hemelrijck
• Sven Döring

Actions from last meeting

Notes from this meeting

• Discussion on what ecommerce tooling to use within the website - Stripe v WooCommerce v alternatives
• Downside: Stripe is less flexible if we were to use it directly but it lets us get set up quickly with no overhead so we will start with that and if we need to then extend it to use something like WooCommerce we'll do that later
• Blogs are being moved from the custom type into the official 'posts' category so that it will work more smoothly - Ruth's already sorted out the categorization so should be fine once they are moved over.
• Discussion on the menu layout and whether we should move back to two-level structure rather than the current three-level. Some concerns about discoverability of content if it is not on the main menu as a sub-item. Mike will see if we can find a menu which allows three levels.
• Discussion on the verticals page and whether it's a top-level landing page or not
• Mike suggested landing pages use the blue hero block, and all other pages use the white header like on the resources page
• All to continue with working on page creation

Actions from this meeting

1.  Ruth to find out about setting up Stripe account for Mautic and how that will work with Open Collective
2.  Simplify the menu structure and build out the pages to support this (All)
3. Continue with page creation
4. Mike is working on blog section, and members database this week.