Sagamore online history

Where Sagamore online activity becomes history. Entries often come from:

• Sagamore online#To_Do
• Sagamore Hills PTA website#To_Do

See also: Sagamore online meetings, Sagamore Hills PTA Google account setup

Other

• Sagamore online goals 2014#Done
• State of Sagamore online, fall 2013#Ideas

Online

From Sagamore online#Done

• Take Vera out of the equation and replace with something future proof, like "Sagamore Online <online@sagamorehillspta.org>". Look at Dreamhost billing, domain registration, and hosting credentials. -- Dave (talk) 20:39, 23 January 2013 (EST)
  • Vera is now out, but only replaced by me. Contact and control should really be by held by the PTA, not an individual. --Dave (talk) 13:49, 5 July 2013 (EDT)

✓ Done and History ! --Dave (talk) 13:54, 3 September 2014 (EDT)

• Figure out a name for a shared PTA Google Account (discussion) --Dave (talk) 01:25, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

✓ Done (sagamorehillspta@sagamorehillspta.org) --Dave (talk) 20:32, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

• Hold a State of Sagamore online, fall 2013 video conference --Dave (talk) 13:51, 21 August 2013 (EDT)
• Sign up for Google for nonprofits and sign up for a free Google Apps account --Dave (talk) 16:22, 19 July 2013 (EDT)
  • See Sagamore Hills PTA Google account --Dave (talk) 16:22, 19 July 2013 (EDT)
  • Created Google for Nonprofits account for Sagamore Hills ES PTA and Google Apps for sagamorehillspta.org. Awaiting approval of Google Apps for Nonprofits (linking Google Apps account to Google for Nonprofits account to get the former for free (currently in 30-day free trial)). --Dave (talk) 20:57, 19 July 2013 (EDT)

✓ Done! See Sagamore Hills PTA Google account setup --Dave (talk) 18:52, 22 July 2013 (EDT)

• Take a Sagamore information inventory 2013 (on our way to an improved parent handbook) --Dave (talk) 13:10, 17 July 2013 (EDT)
• Start documenting the variety of Sagamore communication --Dave (talk) 13:10, 17 July 2013 (EDT)
• Delete traces of the ptasagamorehills.org domain at Dreamhost -- Dave (talk) 21:06, 23 January 2013 (EST)

✓ Done (by deleting at Manage Domains) --Dave (talk) 17:00, 2 February 2013 (EST)

Website

From Sagamore Hills PTA website#Done

• Look into Wordpress new themeing (see also: Sagamore PTA Wordpress notes) --Dave (talk) 11:40, 2 February 2013 (EST)
  • Now I'm looking into balancing stock theme capabilities vs customizations, especially things like custom fields, custom post types, and such. --Dave (talk) 10:33, 25 April 2014 (EDT)
    • Going to try and keep it simple (, stupid) for now and just have dumb pages manually linking to each other and manually defined navigation --Dave (talk) 14:14, 12 September 2014 (EDT)
  • Possible starting points: Twenty Twelve, the default Wordpress theme, supposed to support major Wordpress features (probably the best to child off of); SemPress, semantic goodness; Toolbox & BlankSlate, in the raw to start from (almost) scratch --Dave (talk) 16:10, 15 February 2013 (EST)
    • With the 2014-09 update, using default Twenty Fourteen (with a header image) --Dave (talk) 14:14, 12 September 2014 (EDT)
• Do some cleanup after the Wordpress backend refresh --Dave (talk) 14:14, 12 September 2014 (EDT)
  • Fix simple problems with existing content (broken links/images)
  • Make sure pages have cute URLs
  • Deleting old media files (and making sure good ones are somewhere on the Sagamore Google Drive (may already be done))

✓ Done --Dave (talk) 23:08, 13 September 2014 (EDT)

• Experiment with different website platforms:

  • test-wordpress.sagamorehillspta.org/ (Sagamore PTA Wordpress notes)
  • test-google-sites.sagamorehillspta.org (Sagamore PTA Google Sites notes)

  • Discussed at website meeting with Dave & John, continue discussion on mailing list (email • archives • subscribe & more) --Dave (talk) 21:00, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
  • Thinking not Google Sites --Dave (talk) 10:33, 25 April 2014 (EDT)
    • Delete teset-google-sites.sagamorehillspta.org --Dave (talk) 08:03, 18 February 2015 (EST)
  • Chose Wordpress while deciding Sagamore online goals 2014#Website_platform --Dave (talk) 16:00, 7 May 2014 (EDT)

✓ Now have a fresh Wordpress installation with old content imported --Dave (talk) 14:14, 12 September 2014 (EDT)

• Use prettier urls? See Using Permalinks and the the settings. --Dave (talk) 22:21, 3 February 2013 (EST)
  • Leaving the site as is for now, and making sure this happens when new theming happens --Dave (talk) 10:33, 25 April 2014 (EDT)
  • Done with the site migration 2014-09-11 --Dave (talk) 14:14, 12 September 2014 (EDT)
• Styled the http://test-google-sites.sagamorehills.org/ and took Sagamore PTA Google Sites notes --Dave (talk) 19:40, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
• Use Google Calendar—embed in website and allow public subscribing

✓ Setup a calender, still working out the details --Dave (talk) 22:35, 25 August 2013 (EDT)

✓ Run a test on the PTA Calendar page --Dave (talk) 22:46, 26 August 2013 (EDT)

• Need to provide subscriptions instructions from school & PTA websites (like those at the Sagamore calendar page --Dave (talk) 17:58, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

✓ Done (for the PTA website (the school site has the sidebar)) --Dave (talk) 19:20, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

• Suggest adding a newsletter signup opportunity to homepage (Contact provides code under Contacts, Grow My Contact List) --Dave (talk) 17:33, 3 February 2013 (EST)

✓ Done (for PTA homepage anyway) -Dave (talk) 20:34, 18 August 2013 (EDT)

• Remove the ability to leave comments on PTA website pages—the site is not a blog to host discussion, it just disseminates information. Instead, make sure contact information is readily available on all pages. --Dave (talk) 11:16, 2 February 2013 (EST)

• Turned off interaction (notifying linked blogs, pingback & trackbacks, comments) by default for new content --Dave (talk) 16:46, 2 March 2013 (EST)
• Disabled interaction on existing pages(13)/posts(3) (all we ever saw was spam, and our contact information (email) is available on the site)--Dave (talk) 18:53, 12 May 2013 (EDT)

• Link to the Constant Contact provided webpage for weekly newsletters instead of copy & pasting them onto the PTA homepage. --Dave (talk) 11:31, 2 February 2013 (EST)

Started discussion --Dave (talk) 22:16, 3 February 2013 (EST)

✓ Done --Dave (talk) 14:02, 11 February 2013 (EST)