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? Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. 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 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Mellow Groovy Sounds YouTube Channel Mellow Grovvy AOR / West Coast Mix #4 Wes: Used projectors are cheap and can be a great deal Shameless Plugs Scott: All Courses - 50% everything! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets