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Website Specification
All comments/additions/alternative ideas welcome - please add them below.
Perhaps we should stick with a simple brochure website +/- a blog at this stage? Ideally we could use third-party services (e.g. Meetup) for any web app-type functionality and thus not get distracted by having to maintain a complex codebase.
Most important thing is framimg content in terms of users' stories. We may have 2 groups of interested users - novices who might want to attend our course & slightly-more-experienced people who might want to regularly attend our meetings - and we should probably target them differently with different calls-to-action and different sections of the homepage.
- Appeal to common problems users face.
- Got a great idea for an audit but don't know where to start with recording/visualising your data?
- Have a cool-but-messy dataset but no idea how to clean it up & extract value from it?
- Please add more user stories
- Calls-to-action (that aim to solve these problems)
- sign up to our latest course (once we have a date)
- get involved with our regular meetings
Also should have:
- Who we are and what we do
- Links to our Twitter, Slack, email...
- Sign up form for our MailChimp mailing list
- Anything else?
More about who we are
- Team Profiles, etc.
This would add value (SEO, drive traffic to the site), but only if we post regularly! We would need to commit to a timetable for posting, etc.
Hopefully Jekyll will work for now? We can host the site on GitHub that way, and everyone can contribute content.
In the spirit of data science, it would be cool to test which bits of the site are working as intended - are we funneling users towards signing up for our courses effectively or are they disengaging at a certain point? etc. etc. It's easy (and free for low-traffic sites) to do this with e.g. Heap Analytics.
- This theme is nice and clean?
- A custom domain might be nice? This still works with GitHub hosting.
- datascibc.com is £7.43/year on Namecheap. I know we are not technically a breakfast club but it keeps the branding consistent with Twitter, etc!
Please contact Steve Harris if you have any questions.