Welcome to Montego Bay Convention Centre!

General Info

Git: [email protected]:ebcomalex/mobaycentre Staging: http://mobay-staging.herokuapp.com/ Production: http://mobaycentre.heroku.com/ Public Domain: http://www.mobaycentre.com/ FTP (sourcedocs): ftp://ftp.drivehq.com (u/n: ebfriend p/w: unshoe2lunch)

Version 0.5 - Alpha Release Candidate

Development notes:

PRODUCTION

• Our goal is to have a production site up at mobaycentre.com by 09/09 (Friday)

• Changes to make for production (from meeting on 09/06):

  • DNS config - transfer nameservers to Heroku
  • SEO - anything left to do?
  • Email domains - can we route these to his existing email or maybe setup the account for him?
  • Main menu - add dropdowns (keep sidebar sub-menu for now)
  • Replace dropdown flag with rounded rectangle buttons; also add text and image
  • Increase size of the MBCC logo in the header
  • Colors:
    • burgundy vs. blue buttons?
    • he likes the colors on the homepage, find a way to incorporate the same colors elsewhere in the site

• Other general notes to keep in mind as we finalize things:

  • Add emails and portraits to the staff bio page when he supplies it
  • Add content, images, etc. as he supplies it
  • Spelling and phrasing check (they use British English)
  • He wants an image on every page (will supply more images on the FTP server)
  • He likes motion/animation/flashiness - find a way to do this but keep it classy
  • For now he would like to advertise upcoming events in the adspace
  • Photo gallery - make sure photos can be downloaded
  • Photo gallery - jQuery slideshow with thumbnails?

Launch Staging

• Rotating Banner Ads
• Javascript baby!
• Brand Website/CMS
• Drop-down flags
• Content (in progress)
• Mobay XML link *** Set up User's account *** *** Custom Forms ***
• TEST. EVERYTHING.

Learning to program Ruby

definitely not finished

There is still much to do:

big things

• add content from sourcedocs
• spruce up the frontpage with jQuery (SLIDESHOW?)
• add more pages for the flags, see powerpoints
• set up /dev/ database
• FINAL STEP: register mobaycentre.heroku.com as the DNS server
• add "featured events" to front page

little things

• tweak the styling --- remember to use sass --watch public/stylesheets/scss/custom.scss:public/stylesheets/custom.css
• add favicon (DONE)
• rebrand refinery with EventBooking logos
• brand the footer, and figure out what to do with the adspace (DONE)

THINGS TO REMEMBER:

git workflow

git checkout -b name_of_my_branch
git status (see changes)
git add <name_of_file> (or "git add ." for everything)
git commit -m "Detailed message about the changes"
git checkout master
git merge name_of_my_branch
git push origin master    

google analytics

• google analytics code for mobaycentre.com: UA-25297656-1
• see settings in refinery dashboard to add this

calendar xml from EventBooking.com

• change the url string in lib/cron.rake so it has mobaycentre.com's publicity weblink, not charlotte harbor

End user notes:

EventBooking and RefineryCMS User Guide

Introduction

This is the user guide for http://www.mobaycentre.com.

Useful Links

• http://mobaycentre.com
• http://mobaycentre.com/refinery
• http://refinerycms.com
• http://github.com/ebcomalex/mobaycentre
• http://go.smgbooking.com

Editing Your Website

Refinery makes it very simple to edit your website without ever touching the sourcecode.

Log in now at http://mobaycentre.com/refinery

The Events Tab

MobayCentre has its own database of upcoming events. In addition, it has also been designed to pull in event data from your PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED and CONFIRMED events on the go.smgbooking.com calendars. It checks for new events once an hour. At the time of this release it will only pull in the Title, Description, Venue, and Start/End times.

It is up to you to add additional information and mark Featured Events. You can do this by visiting the Edit Event page.

Creating Events

The calendar will automatically populate with data from go-smgbooking.com. But you can also create events manually here. Just click "Add New Event," and you're on your way! Remember, if you create an event manually, and then set it's publicity status to "Announced" on your smgbooking account, it will show up twice!

Editing your event

Click the pencil icon on the right of your event to edit your event. Mark an event as "Featured" if you want it to appear on the home page. Further integration with the EventBooking publicity tab is planned.

Deleting an event

Deleting an event will remove it from MobayCentre's Events database. If the event originated in your smgbooking account, you must also un-announce it on that event's corresponding publicity tab, or it will just reappear in the mobaycentre.com Events database within the hour.

Managing Ads

You have an adspace in the page footer. You can control what goes there on the ads tab in your admin panel. unfinished

Uploading Files (client access?)

• floor plans have been uploaded

Adding Photos to the Gallery (client access?)

• awaiting more photos