Thinking Ahead for Emergency UI When Building a Website

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about emergency UI when building a website. During an emergency, you need to relay information to your website visitors as quickly and efficiently as possible. How do you do that? What do you need in place on your website?

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Show Notes

5:40 - Banners and popups

• Interfere
• Static
• Dismissible
• Cookie/localstorage
• When that popup is updated, it should show again. Maybe use a hash of the content? Or length? Something that resets itself every time the content is updated.
• Private client-side-only PWAs are hard

14:35 - Good styling

• What happens if they add an image?
• Do they have access to the branded fonts and colors in their WYSIWYG?
• Can you revoke 100px red Times New Roman?

18:32 - Page alerts

• Yellow, green, red
• Alerts on existing pages

21:08 - New pages

• Is there a good template for new pages?
• Can they easily set the slug?
  • whatever.com/covid19
• Can they add it to the nav?

23:52 - Google’s “Hours of Operation”

• Is that easy to change?
• Meta tags: https://schema.org/OpeningHoursSpecification

25:43 - Other

• Own your audience!
• Email newsletter ready to rock
• Online pickup? Basic scheduling software
  • https://www.cityhive.net/
  • https://snipcart.com/
• Live streaming - have a YouTube account ready to go, even if empty

34:38 - Deployment

• Detail how to deploy everything
• It might have been years and the CSS will only compile on Node 6 and Gulp 3
• Do any caches need clearing?
• Does the CSS need to be cache busted?

Links

• 1Password
• Cloudflare

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