Apex Trading - Current
Chris LaFay: Yeah.
Rob Fess: Now I should be able to.
Chris LaFay: Good afternoon.
Rob Fess: Hello.
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Rob Fess: And my phone going, so.
Chris LaFay: Don, nice to actually see you today. Excuse me, did Andrew Bernhardt accept this one?
Rob Fess: He did.
Andrew Bernhardt: I will.
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Rob Fess: I will shoot him over. Where you at?
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Andrew Bernhardt: We are rocking.
Chris LaFay: Hey, guys. Yes, we are. Good afternoon.
Dawn Audano: Andrew, I have not been on a video call with you in so long and your background looks completely different than what I remember.
Andrew Bernhardt: Oh, yeah?
Chris LaFay: Yeah.
Andrew Bernhardt: My desk used to be. If I were to tilt this, like, just. Was it a white wall?
Dawn Audano: I don't even remember. But everything that showed up on screen, I was like, that's new.
Chris LaFay: You used to have a surfboard. You'd like your surfboard and stuff in the back before. And now you have a piano. Do you play piano?
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah, I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have three pianos back there if I couldn't play them. That would be. That would be rough. Or maybe it was just my inspiration. I really want to learn. Yeah, I love playing. Yeah.
Chris LaFay: Learn something new today.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yes.
Chris LaFay: Superb. Well, awesome. So today we're gonna go through the Google Doc that. That Rob sent over on Friday as a preface to. All of this is on Friday slash Saturday, I went through and basically went through the whole document and just organized them into just simplistic to do's. And so on a separate tab in that exact same Google Doc, there is a. A tab that I called something. I don't remember what it was.
Rob Fess: Reformatted.
Chris LaFay: Reformatted.
Rob Fess: Yes.
Chris LaFay: And I basically put everything from that into just a very simple way to view things. And so with all that said, going through all of that, the ones at the very bottom of that list are the stylistic changes. The ones that are just kind of like the global ones across the board. All of those have been done. Those are all checked off. There was one that was. There was a little bit of confusion there, but the confusion was more in terms of we have header text over here and header text over there. One needed to be bold, one needed to be thin. We just need to get things consistent. It may not have been the header text specifically. It might have been about a link text or a link style or something like that, but it was about something to do with consistency. But outside of all of that, everything that's on that element of the sheet is done. And so if you refresh, if you clear your cache. I've done that a couple of times on my own computer. Everything seems to be pulling up with the updated styles. So primary buttons that are green have the gradient buttons are a little bit bigger, they're wider, the shadows on them are slightly different, a little bit larger, but also a little bit more transparent. So they're not as thick and heavy. The rest of them are basically questions on how to do certain things and then the page list. And so a lot of where my thinking comes in here for today is if the majority of those other questions are about how do I do this, how do I do that? If we define what the list of those remaining questions are. Sorry, the list of the remaining pages are through the building process of those pages. In recording the building of those pages, a lot of the questions that are in the middle of that Google Doc will also by default be answered. So that is my preface for the meeting today and kind of how I was thinking we could go through all of this. Thoughts, ideas, questions.
Rob Fess: Just a quick question. So to kind of get an understanding of what you were talking about, I opened up the seller page, which I could see the icon pod key line is, is gone. But the, the, the color of the font still seems darker across. Like if I have a side by side page, I don't know what the, you know, I can't, my eyes not trained enough to say it's you know, 6.5 and it should be a 4.5 or something, something. But are you seeing that as well? Was that something that didn't get changed? But the font just looks like a heavier, darker font. I mean it's the right font but just the font color is still sort of this closer to black than it is to gray. Just curious if that was something that had been done or hadn't been done in that checkoff list there.
Chris LaFay: So with that, this is another one of these consistency things. So that's just pulling the core font color across the site. So the font color, if you're typing in a paragraph or something along those lines, it's pulling in that default font color. So if you want to change the default font color, we can. But what I want to try to avoid is having every element have these very specific customizations because then.
Rob Fess: Yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Chris LaFay: So that color, that font that's in that pod is the same color as the paragraph font in other places.
Rob Fess: Yeah, because as I look through, I'm trying to click through as many pages as I can to see if what I'm talking about is. Yeah, it looks like across the site is as far as like the 10 or whatever pages I've been able to click in and out of. We have a darker font in the new site versus the old site.
Chris LaFay: Okay. So. So we want to. So one of the things that we want to change is the font color across the website and make the all of it lighter. Yes. Yep. Okay. That sounds good.
Andrew Bernhardt: I think like the whole preface sounds good, but I think dones. We still probably should just walk through a page together. So I feel like I like whatever we consider is done. We do want to move into like duplicating pages and copying content in. But could we maybe start with just the seller page? Go top to bottom and. And we'll go section by section and kind of call out if anything doesn't seem done or like aspect like the font type or color or anything like that, you know.
Chris LaFay: Sounds good.
Andrew Bernhardt: Because I think for me, this font type, am I not seeing it reflected correctly? Was there maybe if I need to do another cache. Clear. Are you guys not seeing this?
Rob Fess: The old.
Andrew Bernhardt: I think it was Poppins or whatever this font type was here.
Chris LaFay: It does say that it is Poppins on the site. So that paragraph tag has the font of Poppins loaded in.
Andrew Bernhardt: But it doesn't appear. Are you guys seeing the same style of kind of. It's not an aerial looking font, whatever that type is.
Chris LaFay: I thought I tested it and let me. Hold on. Give me one second. I'm going to log into the back end.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah. Because for style. Let me open this up a little more.
Chris LaFay: Go.
Andrew Bernhardt: So for this paragraph.
Chris LaFay: So over here, font, there's a font body CSS variable.
Andrew Bernhardt: It felt like. I felt like font awesome was maybe overtaking it for some reason. So I see your Poppins down here for font body.
Chris LaFay: Let's do this. Hold on one second. I'm gonna just load in pop ins in a different way. Give me one second. It'll load in a different way. Hold on.
Andrew Bernhardt: And Rob, are you seeing the same on yours? It's not matching Poppins like over here. Right, right.
Rob Fess: It's not what's different? It's. It's close, but it's different. Let's see, where is it? Is it a serif? What am I seeing that's different?
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah, I. It's probably falling back. It might be getting overwritten by this root styling of font awesome 7 free. But other if not, it's falling back on.
Chris LaFay: If you refresh now, Poppins is now on the site.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah, baby.
Rob Fess: There it is.
Andrew Bernhardt: Components like that, we just. We should go step by step and I think it'll help us get there very Cool. And that's global. You just did that global even on home page, right?
Rob Fess: Okay. Yeah. And then I would say next. Is that like the color like Andrew, if you have this. I don't know if this. The side by side but like if you like meet your wholesale cannabis tool set inventory management. All the icon pod text is a much darker font on the, on the. On the WordPress versus.
Andrew Bernhardt: Versus live. Let's see. So this is. This is a little bit more. Is this more of like a. This is like almost like a gray blue.
Chris LaFay: You.
Andrew Bernhardt: Do you prefer that. Is that a style on email and other things that you like that one too?
Rob Fess: Yeah, I would say that color. Yeah, that color I think is probably. 30. No, wait, 46, 30, 56 or something. Hang on. I know that color because I got the.
Chris LaFay: I got. I got blue. Hold on one second. So I'm gonna basically just go through and make all of the content as the default color. That color. Give me one second. I'm actually gonna have to do.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah, it looks like it's a preset colored dark or something.
Chris LaFay: It is. Because most of the time, even if colors are different on a live site, we normally default to a. A darker gray on body content. It just has more. It has more, more clarity to it. But if you give me a second, I'm just going to go ahead and do this really quick right now.
Andrew Bernhardt: I love. They got the buttons, all the tiles looking good, Rob. So I feel like we're in the right spot for the trading on those. That looks good to me. And then you just wanted to see the rest of the content below it so that we have one fully completed page. That was a main ask there.
Rob Fess: Yeah, I think that color page is.
Chris LaFay: One that we did not build out. That was not on that list of 13 or 14. So if we wanted to go through a whole page, we could go key in on one of the other pages that we have have there.
Andrew Bernhardt: Okay, perfect. Was buyers, maybe a good one.
Chris LaFay: I don't have the list pulled up, but it's in Slack though. There was that list of 13 or 14 that was in Slack.
Rob Fess: Yeah, they were all in that dock too. I think I did every page that we. We have here.
Andrew Bernhardt: You got it back in the dock.
Chris LaFay: Okay. Want it?
Rob Fess: Yeah.
Andrew Bernhardt: These are the prod you got. You got the staged ones here.
Chris LaFay: This. I think the staging ones are in that. In that Slack message or Dawn. They also might be in the Asana task as well too. That we would have access to. Easier access to.
Rob Fess: Yeah, the pages.
Andrew Bernhardt: Hang on.
Rob Fess: I'm Getting there.
Andrew Bernhardt: Here we go. So want to see kind of see one of them? Do we have a seller's one that's got Rob, which one has like kind of all the main modules here?
Rob Fess: Well, that seller page and what's interesting and it's. It's. I. I don't know if you saw in the document I sent over Chris but like the seller page in the document in the. Not in the reformatted section but in what I sent over the tab 1. If you look you could scroll down and or control F and find home page. And if you look I have like not home page. Sorry seller page. If you look at the seller page that I captured from the Apex site versus the seller page from Classic City, it doesn't look like even with the style changes that. That we have the finished page yet because it just ends at the end of those icon pods.
Andrew Bernhardt: I think that's what he's saying. He hasn't worked the seller.
Rob Fess: Oh, gotcha. My bad.
Chris LaFay: Yeah, that wasn't.
Rob Fess: Yeah. If we're looking for a complete complete page, that's not our complete complete page to kind of like. But that one does have a lot of various elements once it is complete.
Andrew Bernhardt: So it looks like buyers is kind of similar to sellers. It's like halfway complete because it's the header section plus the grid. So the. The actual completes are more these. Which. Which would you say is the most robust. This is almost a sub page branding of a.
Chris LaFay: For a.
Andrew Bernhardt: Like a seller. Let's see. Partners is a little straightforward.
Rob Fess: Yeah. Partners about branding are all off cannabis guides, contacts, demos. Yeah, it probably is. Unfortunately either sellers or buyers, they have.
Andrew Bernhardt: The most like layout was kind of. We could probably drill into this one. I think it was just about pixel pushing layout. So let me pull this over now that you got font types being worked on and the shading. So I'm going to go to prod.
Rob Fess: Yeah, it's under Connect if you're looking for it.
Andrew Bernhardt: Okay, perfect. So we're going to go to our partners page. So I think this was just about maybe the font balance and the look and feel. This is probably something you could work with. This was maybe just a different custom font type. So there, there this is like a. I guess a default probably H2 I would assume.
Chris LaFay: So that's the H1 tag. So like if you look at the. If you go to the homepage in that main section there, that is also an H1 tag which has that smaller bolder font. And so this is kind of where the consistency comes into play. Of like, do we want our H1 tags to look like that, which does match more in line with the homepage, or do we want it to look more like the thin, larger on the other side on the, on the pages like Buyers and sellers, where the hero section has multiple headers, where there's the white text at the top, and then a two column layout that H1 tag at the top is on the original site, thin, white with a drop shadow, whereas H1s on other pages are not thin and white with a drop shadow. So this is where some of these inconsistencies are coming in because of using the same kind of tags across the board.
Andrew Bernhardt: That makes sense. Yeah.
Rob Fess: And can we, can we edit those manually? I mean, I'd like to have them all dialed in as best we can. But we can edit those manually then, Right? We could say make this a different font, make this a thicker font, make this a thinner font. Whatever we want.
Chris LaFay: We can adjust the font size and the color in the back end of WordPress on an element by element basis.
Rob Fess: Sorry, how about not from the back end though, like on the actual page? Like if I wanted to take that easily source the products you need. And for whatever reason, and I'm not saying we need this, we wanted that to be a heavier sentence.
Chris LaFay: You could push, push control B and make it strong. Yes.
Andrew Bernhardt: And you also have like actually semantic issues too. It's interesting, Robert, you can see that he just. To stylize it, he used a second H1 here. So he goes H1 H1, which is not ideal. And then down here, another H1. Wow. He just went, well, this, this could.
Rob Fess: Have been me, because I don't know.
Andrew Bernhardt: This is, this is your fraud. I'm just, I'm just pointing out kind of. Yeah, yeah, fraud from when Josh did it back in the day or something. So we probably, you and I should write down kind of what our schema will be like. It's probably good to land on 1H1 if we feel like. I think thick really calls out nicely when it has the background.
Rob Fess: Yep.
Andrew Bernhardt: So that looks great on home. This really pops. And then the sub lines for H2 I like that really sits well on the white background, whether it's white or a black font, you know, depending on the background color. H2. So semantically this is nice. If we think that these as the 2D defaults. I'm. I'm thinking you may not want to thin line H1 basically, you know.
Rob Fess: Yeah.
Chris LaFay: Andrew, in your address bar. So pull. Go away from mobile for a second and then go to slash, block, dash, library. So this is the first thing that we looked at before we started content importing. These are all of your different headings and your basic paragraphs right here at the top. So underneath the heading section, you'll see heading number one, heading number two, heading number three. These are your core styles for all of your headers. So obviously. So the word headings is just like, in this page, there's gonna be a lot of different sections, but in this section, we're only talking about the headings. So this is one of the first things that we looked at together and we got alignment on. What do we want our H1S2S3S4 size 6S to look like? So on each of these pages, that would have been built out, we used the H1s, the paragraph tabs, et cetera, et cetera. So this is when we're talking about consistency. This is where it's all getting pulled from. So.
Andrew Bernhardt: Heading one is H1, heading two is H2. And I like the size of it. Heading three is probably. Is an H3. And. And so you can decide where we want to nest those. But now you're not jabberwockied like H1s, H1s, H1s everywhere.
Rob Fess: Yeah.
Andrew Bernhardt: So. So I think those. It's best to stick to. That's where I think it could and should be a little different than prod. So let's say, like, we go to the partners. I think this is where I'm. I would suggest it's kind of a happy medium of being different than prod. Let's just look at the width of the block underneath it. So if there's anything that we need to call out for any of these templates. Right. So partners page, this is probably. You'd probably use as a subheading. So you could keep with your H1, because that is the page itself. Apex Trading Service Partners. This could be an H2, which. Oh, it actually is. It's just the.
Chris LaFay: That's actually a paragraph. That's actually a paragraph tag with a large font. Okay, got it.
Andrew Bernhardt: Okay, There you go. So you could. Now, it almost will look exactly the same. It's just because they controlled, I guess, the width of this. The body of this one page. Perhaps there's a little bit of control there where ours. We just let it wrap as a paragraph. Oh, that's why.
Chris LaFay: Yeah, it's just going content. Like, there's a width of the page for content width. So that hero section is just going to content width. That's all right.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah. So they probably hacked the rob. There's a lot of little micro differences perhaps here where they've inserted a break in this inside the H3. No, they just controlled it. Tech center. So it's a centered one. That's probably what's controlling. This one's not maybe centered. Well, is it centered? It just has a different width applies.
Chris LaFay: It has a different width to it.
Rob Fess: Okay. Okay. So. And we can put like, hard returns and things like that to sort of. Yeah, smaller. Yeah, you can even.
Andrew Bernhardt: You could infect the width of this paragraph. If you're like, I want to hijack this one little section. We could. We could change that, you know, on the basis.
Chris LaFay: Works very similar to, like Microsoft Word. If you push Enter, it creates a new paragraph. If you push Shift Enter, it does a line break within the same paragraph.
Rob Fess: Totally. Yeah. Yeah, I do that. Shift Enter.
Chris LaFay: And basically all the different font sizings are. If you go back to that. If you go back to that block library page, the section right below the headers, you'll see the paragraphs and you'll see extra small, small, medium, large, and extra large. So while the font sizing might not line up one to one with the current. With the current site, we have our default baked in. These are the WordPress sizes. And, sorry, the size like labelings. And so we basically just trial defined the font size that was the closest to. We try to basically take the large font size and match it up as close to possible with something on the live site. Rinse and repeat for extra large, large, medium. Medium is default, and then small and extra small.
Rob Fess: Okay.
Chris LaFay: And as you probably.
Andrew Bernhardt: That's because it is a paragraph.
Rob Fess: Yeah, That's a left paragraph. Yeah.
Andrew Bernhardt: What intent is that content? It's intended to be a paragraph. So you're using a nice P around it and you're applying a large size to it. So this looks great. And then you're able to do so when we first inherited and have that nice kind of faint bordering around it. So that sits really nicely, just like it does on Prod.
Rob Fess: All of that block library we're looking at, that's now all updated to Poppins when we're looking at it. Right.
Chris LaFay: Everything. All the changes that I made were all global.
Rob Fess: Yeah, that.
Andrew Bernhardt: That was a visual thing that I think was just, you know, things like that are massive. Once you see the branding applied, then everything sits nicely after that. So it's like a visual expectation. So you're good with, like, you don't need the custom bullet points or did you want them to create check marks. I mean, it's nice having check because like you're like, it does this, it does that. So it is kind of nice.
Rob Fess: Can I use Font awesome to do that? To get a check mark and add color, you know, if I just wanted to do that. Or is it a style thing that you would want to add?
Chris LaFay: If you wanted to make them not bullet pointed list, but if you did paragraphs, you could then add a checkbox. A checkbox icon at the front of. At the front of the paragraph. Yes.
Rob Fess: And adjust size and all that.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah, that might just take more time because they're all loaded as list items. Old site, new site, you could do that, but you would almost need a custom list item type. I don't know, how hard would that be to be? Like if you wanted to do a unordered list and our list type is checkbox, could we give them a bullet point type? That is checkbox.
Chris LaFay: Actually, that might. Were you in the back end of the site already?
Andrew Bernhardt: I've been in there, but I don't. I haven't tried applying that change like that. Let's see.
Rob Fess: Go.
Chris LaFay: Since you're already. Oh, you're in the seller page. Never mind.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah, I can go down into partners. Let's see here we've got the actual.
Chris LaFay: So go into one of the list items and then on that little tool tip that pops up, click on the. Yep, that. Huh. Perfect. Click that. And then on the right hand sidebar where it says block settings, scroll up and down. Nothing's there.
Rob Fess: Okay.
Chris LaFay: Sometime I thought there was, I thought there was a. Yeah, it's not going to be under advanced. Scroll back up again. No. Okay, never mind. It must have been on something that I was looking at. On, on the, on our own Classic City site, we had a couple. We had an option at the, at the list level that I thought was.
Rob Fess: A global thing and we could circle back maybe at the end to kind of finish off the fonts. And I know it's probably better to check some stuff off, but I want to make sure we have time to look at like potential pages that I had listed out. And did you. What ones did you make of those and. Or do we need to discuss through any of that and just some thoughts in and out. Like I have some questions like can you change the mega hero image from the page that I'm editing on? Like if I'm in. Andrew, since you're, since you're sort of driving there, if you want to pull up one of like the, the Seller page or something. Or the home page on the front end or. Or on the back end. Actually like not the preview but the like in the page. I'm just curious, are you able to change that, that image? So if I duplicate a page and have this image here, can I. How do I modify that image?
Chris LaFay: Yeah, so Andrew, since you're already back there, go ahead and edit that page really quick. It's very simple.
Andrew Bernhardt: There's. It looks like it's the background image. So when we go to set it, it's background image for that page. Let me edit it.
Rob Fess: Yeah, yeah, edit page. Because I, I was looking and there's like a little bar that comes up when you click on the image and. Yeah, take over. That's fine.
Chris LaFay: So go ahead and open up the, There's a table of content that in the top left hand corner, Andrew, there's a little table of contents. Click on that. Go ahead and expand that first group. Actually go back to the list view. Expand that group. So that's where all of our blocks are. And so that first grouping there says hero. Yep, click on that. So we are now in that Hero section. So in the right, on the right hand side is where all the settings of that block are. So if you see on the right hand side it'll say block actually far right hand side so far as.
Andrew Bernhardt: Oh, that's right, all the way over here.
Chris LaFay: Click on the contrast button there. So there's a settings tab and then a contrast tab right below where your mouse is. Scroll up a little bit. Scroll up a little bit. That half moon, half moon circle styles. There it is. Scroll down some for me. And there you go. There's your background image right there.
Rob Fess: Okay. And so I can change it, but it doesn't change it like globally. It changes it just on this page.
Chris LaFay: Correct.
Rob Fess: Okay, cool.
Chris LaFay: Pretty much all of the building blocks that you have that are on that block library are not shared once you add them to a page that is, that is basically think of it kind of like a simple copy paste. And that's it. Now there is one block that is shared which is the, the footer call to action. That's a lot of pages. That one is in fact shared and that is notated by the icon on the left hand side of the screen being purple. If it's purple, it actually won't let you edit it. You'll actually try to like dig into it and try to like edit something inside of it. And you'll be like, why can't I edit this?
Rob Fess: Because it's Shared and it's on which. What was an example page of that? Do you remember?
Chris LaFay: I don't. There. A lot of the pages that we build had that block on it. I just don't remember which one specifically.
Rob Fess: Okay. Because I'll probably run across it and.
Andrew Bernhardt: Won'T remember what we were saying. Where can he upload and change this. This actual image?
Chris LaFay: Yeah. So if you click on it. I'm sorry. Actually, don't click on it. Click the minus sign. I apologize. Click the minus sign to remove it. And then you'll add one there that.
Andrew Bernhardt: Can go into your upload in the raw. Or you go. If it's already in the library, you've got it in there. So boom.
Rob Fess: Yeah.
Andrew Bernhardt: Perfect.
Chris LaFay: Yep.
Andrew Bernhardt: That look good, Rob. Yeah.
Rob Fess: Yeah. I've been in and out of this thing too, because I get in the testimonial stuff. But can you add that back? I think you just do the undo button up on the left there.
Chris LaFay: Just control Z.
Rob Fess: Higher, farther, or control Z. Yeah.
Chris LaFay: Or you can just exit out of the page if you want to do that too.
Andrew Bernhardt: I know, I'll just.
Rob Fess: Yeah. If you don't save. It'll reload it. It'll just go back to default. All right, cool.
Chris LaFay: And a lot of these types of things are in those videos. And so, like, there's a whole. There's a video, I think, specifically for like the HERO sections and those walk through kind of each of the different HERO blocks and how to edit the images and the text and the buttons and things along those lines. So there are those specific ones there.
Rob Fess: I think the challenges I was having with those videos, just so you know, and I know we kind of went a little bit out of sequence. Like, we didn't have the template pages built, but it would be a heck of a lot easier for me or any client that you have to show it with our pages and art in. In context, because the video is just like big generic blocks. And it's like you could change it this way and change it that way. And I understand that. But if I saw my image thing and it was like, if you want to change this thing on the buyer's page, you could just click this and I'd be like, oh, okay, now I. But it was just sort of a big. Here's a block with the word block maybe written on it. And. Yeah. So not intuitive for unintuitive people like me.
Chris LaFay: Yeah.
Andrew Bernhardt: So this is shaping up. I feel like, like the next steps to. To consider done is finishing buyers and sellers. Bottom portion after this portion Here, which shouldn't be too much work. It's just a. The final sections of it. Like partner. Would you say Partners is basically ready for you to work off of. And yeah, like if we look down.
Rob Fess: At those pages and I'll try to get back to the sort of WordPress main page, like the About Blog, Branding Connect, Contact demos. I think I might have made a con. A comment there. Events, I think we're good at Testimony. Our reviews. I think we're good other than what was in my notes in the classic city or that classically Questions and comments doc. The sort of. Before the reformatted it, I kind of listed each page and then asked a few questions about each page and then. And then called out like, look, this is missing. Like, this one looks like this, this one looks like that. What's up with that?
Andrew Bernhardt: Was it done?
Rob Fess: Or do we. Is there something you can't add? Or what's the challenge? And then I kind of did that all the way through. And some of this is, like you said, a lot of it has been addressed by style stuff. But then circling back to which pages, which additional pages are we going to create? I guess that's sort of a question as well. Like, do we want to knock that out here? And that's at the top of that document, if you go there. Potential pages to add.
Chris LaFay: Right. Yes.
Andrew Bernhardt: I was going to check the services page.
Rob Fess: Go ahead.
Chris LaFay: These are the ones here, the ones that Andrew has pulled up. Those URLs are all obviously the live site. What I envision that will do is now that all of the overall global styling stuff is done, between the stuff that I already did, plus the couple changes that we made just now, if those pages that are listed, we have about six other pages that we can build. So out of that list that we have there, which are these six that are the most important that we could knock out as we're building those, we will record videos of that building process.
Rob Fess: There we go.
Chris LaFay: And then at that point, you will have videos of all the individual blocks of five to six pages being built out and all the stylistic changes that are already done. And then we'll be able to go ahead and send all that stuff over to you guys and y' all will be set and good to go. And that will kind of wrap up. That'll wrap this particular piece up at this point.
Rob Fess: Yeah, I think so. So, hang on. I'm trying to look at what you have for new pages versus what I have for new pages. I think they're all the same, but yeah. So the guide subpage. You got that?
Andrew Bernhardt: Hang on.
Rob Fess: I switched to reformatted.
Andrew Bernhardt: Were you saying that this. So these are all the pages that we requested. So the services page.
Rob Fess: Well, if you look at the tab, that's the, the top of the tab one that shows what I, what I had written down. Guide page, service page, service sub page, buyer page, order management page. And then I had. If we had, you know, if we got. If we have other things we need to do, we got terms and privacy page, which are just basically nothing but text. So I don't think we really need it. But if it's something that we could just knock out and it's pretty easy, then we do. That are the things that are in the reformatted stuff because they're different links and they're not named the way I sent them over that we covered all that. Right. Guide page, service page, service sub page, buyer page, and order management page. Let's see. Services service, wholesale, buyer wholesale, canvas, order management and guides. Yeah. Okay. I think that's all those. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah, so I think that this, the general. I think we covered that already today. We covered the aspects of training videos. Looks like icon pods are all nice and edited based on that feedback. What are you guys thoughts on the width of the lead form? I don't know if that was noted here, but just the, the demo page.
Rob Fess: Yeah, like right here.
Andrew Bernhardt: Typically, I, I try to make this width a little more, I guess on desktop. Obviously on mobile, I'm sure it's fine. On desktop, it's just a little wide. Maybe we do a global change there. Looks great on mobile, but wouldn't you want that maybe just to be a little less like long running forever on a desktop environment?
Chris LaFay: Here, one second.
Rob Fess: Yeah, yeah, hang on. So that if we call up the. That's the demos page. Is that the same one?
Andrew Bernhardt: Basically the form, depending on where it's embedded. So this is the actual. We'll look at a demo, the actual demo page in a sec. But the form that's on any internal page, let's say it's on sellers, there's a width that I think controls that. So this will be cool. Once they do the sellers page, then you've got like everything under the.
Rob Fess: Yeah, that's why I was saying the sellers page and that.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah, like that, like this is easier to consume visually. You know, like simplicity of filling it out is definitely easier here than the wide version. Back over here.
Chris LaFay: I'm going through and editing all of the synced blocks to have a max width of 800 pixels.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah.
Chris LaFay: There are a couple of different ones. So those blocks that are shared where the content is actually the same across multiple of them across the site. There were slight differences in each of those CTA footers. Some of them had the same text, but the Apex logo was there. Sometimes the title said learn more versus something else. And so there is not just one singular synced block. There are 1, 2, 3, 4. There actually are five of them. So just kind of be aware that those that there are five that exist. But now all of them are squished to 800 pixels and it looks like.
Andrew Bernhardt: You'Re missing last name. I think maybe the embed code that you messaged over in Slack might be a little different than this prod default form.
Rob Fess: There are a couple different forms too. There's the form that's called the demo form that's on the demo page. And then we have the footer form which is the one that link falls off the footer. But they might have had different information.
Chris LaFay: I do, yeah.
Andrew Bernhardt: Like I remember this is the default one that you know, whether you're a buyer seller. Do you feel like it's important to always receive state?
Rob Fess: Pretty much, yeah. If I didn't have that, I can change that on the form side though, which will update it over here rather than have them change it I think. Right. Chris, does that sound right?
Chris LaFay: 100 we all like in the back end.
Rob Fess: Yeah. Because it's a HubSpot form. So I just have to add or take away in the HubSpot form and then that embed code should carry through whatever I make changes on. Right. I don't have to give you a new 100.
Chris LaFay: Looks like I'm using. I'm doing some very simple spitballing but looking at the visuals of these patterns, it looks like there are two form embeds that are used. One that has first name, last name, region, state, like kind of that quad. Like what what Andrew has pulled up. And then another form that just has four long fields.
Rob Fess: Right.
Chris LaFay: I assume that's two separate embeds. I could be wrong that there could be similar looking embeds that were used that I don't know. But it looks like there's two.
Andrew Bernhardt: Right.
Rob Fess: Okay.
Andrew Bernhardt: And then the actual demo page is the one, the only one I think that has the unique look and feel form that is like intentionally floating there and stuck.
Rob Fess: Sorry. As we're going through this and it just reminded me because I looked at those blocks. Did you? And I didn't look what you have done yet. But on the testimonials or reviews page. Let me just take a look at that real quick because that one had.
Chris LaFay: Now they're gridded now.
Rob Fess: Okay. Yeah. Because they were like staying long grid versus whatever. Hang on, let me just pop it.
Chris LaFay: Open so I could see it now. It does it all automatically. So basically sets to a three column grid. So if you have some oddly.
Rob Fess: Oh, yeah.
Chris LaFay: Shapes looks way better. Sometimes there aren't. There isn't a good way to lay those out without dead space. So if you're looking at the top of the testimonial space as it is now.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yep.
Chris LaFay: You'll notice that there's a little bit of weird dead space on the bottom. Right. But that's just because of how.
Rob Fess: Right, yeah, yeah, I'm in it now and it looks ten times better. So. Thank you. That's. That's awesome.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah, that's exactly what you wanted, I feel right there. That looks killer. Yeah. Some of these widths you might want to apply. It's like a wall of text. I think there was just a little bit of. Maybe you want larger fonts or. There was already a while before. I guess the details are all there in that review, so that's good. Yeah.
Rob Fess: Some of the bigger ones we. We pushed out like that, you know, just because. Well, one, they were like a great testimonial. So we wanted it to kind of hero out. And then I guess the question is, Andrew, if you scroll up kind of back towards the top or anywhere really, but I can click on those big hero y testimonial things. I can click and modify that image again the same way we did before. Is that right? Like if we were editing the page column.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah. So it's the block upload. You'll just swap it. Yeah.
Rob Fess: Yep. Okay, cool. Perfect.
Andrew Bernhardt: When I go to edit the page, you'll see that show you real quick. So that's not exactly just a hero hero. It's probably a content block.
Chris LaFay: So one thing to note as Andrew's pulling that up, one very core thing to know with WordPress, go ahead and take that over and then open up what I like to call the. The table of content section on the top left hand corner. I think they call it the outline section.
Rob Fess: Stairs or whatever.
Chris LaFay: The little stairs. Yeah, go ahead and click on that for me. Stay in the list view and open up that group. Anytime you see that little group icon with the squares overlapping, you have the ability to add a background color or a background image. That group in general is just a collection of Elements is all that it is. And inside of those groups you could add whatever. So yes, they are the hero sections technically, but in reality it's just a group of blocks. That's it. And so inside that group has a background image or a background color, and then you set your background image right there.
Andrew Bernhardt: And that's really cool how you can do a focal point, because that's very important, I feel for mobile because if it's a big image, it, it helps it zero in on the breakpoints based on that.
Chris LaFay: That's new within WordPress relative to the last like year and a half or two. They've. They had the ability to add backgrounds to groups for a long time and everybody was like, where the freaking heck is focal point? Squarespace has had this for a decade. And so is the human.
Andrew Bernhardt: The. The human. The eye, like the image, if it's a human being or something, might float all the way off the image. So it'll look real funky. Yeah, that's super cool. And yes. Right. If you want to make sure it's centered, it's nice how it even calls out that it is centered. The image style.
Chris LaFay: Those are basically the block names. The block names on the block library, for the most part, I think 100% match up with the name of the group of the blocks as well too. And then everything just have stuff inside of it.
Rob Fess: Andrew, when you clicked in the image there, am I able to change it from there too? Or does it have to go back over to this right side for changing?
Chris LaFay: Because I see image is just. That image is just the image that's inside the content.
Rob Fess: Right. That's what I mean. If I wanted to change that image.
Chris LaFay: So there's a replace button right there. So as you click on the image, there's a replace button.
Rob Fess: Okay, cool, cool.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah, so these are like. Yeah, these are paragraphs and blocks within there. You can edit it. And then the setting of that whole content section is here. And then that's where you would come over here if you wanted to do the background image to be a little different.
Chris LaFay: Andrew, I'm going to get a little bit technical with you here for a moment just because I think it'll help you, like if you guys are going to be talking about. About this longer term. So go back. So over on that right hand side. Actually, no, go back to the editor screen of that. Whatever. It doesn't really matter what page. Just something that.
Andrew Bernhardt: Go to the.
Rob Fess: If you can go to the. Because I want to talk about it in a minute. The Ohio page, which Is the wholesale cannabis seller sub page.
Chris LaFay: We built Oregon out.
Rob Fess: Oregon. Sorry, sorry, I just remembered. Oh.
Andrew Bernhardt: Guy right here. Right.
Chris LaFay: Okay.
Rob Fess: Yeah, that. I think it was further. That was.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah, this main Oregon one.
Rob Fess: And the reason why is then I have a question about how we're gonna do some import stuff instead of just duplicating and copy and pasting. Because I think isn't this. Before you go into what you were going to ask, isn't this a page that would be pretty easily done by us other than 100%. This section down here. And that's my question for more for you, Chris. Like if I want to duplicate Oregon and make Oregon a California page, is the. How are we going to adjust or import might be better, Andrew. And that's the question. Will it import the thing needed to get that API flowing that gets those companies in there?
Chris LaFay: So that I need to talk with Andrew Booth about.
Rob Fess: Okay.
Chris LaFay: We switched gears the last couple weeks to be highly reactive to changing a lot of this stuff up and importing content.
Rob Fess: Yeah.
Chris LaFay: So I think the only block that is missing is a block that will dynamically pull that state sellers. The API stuff is done.
Rob Fess: Okay.
Chris LaFay: It is complete. Everything is working, everything is running. We haven't noticed any errors. We're fine and dandy. So there's basically going to be a block that you drop where rather than having to go through and do all these images and stuff, it'll say select which state you're in. And so you'll build out the Oregon page. You'll draw and they'll have the block here and you'll select Oregon. And then when you view it on the front end, it'll pull all of the, all of the sellers from Oregon.
Andrew Bernhardt: It won't be a pods, it'll be a state API block setting thing here.
Chris LaFay: Literally. So right where the drop down number says three rather than saying number of columns three, it'll say select your state and you'll select your state. And that is literally the entirety of that custom block. And that's it.
Andrew Bernhardt: And then in like an import for that is that maybe a column of content type pertaining to a page that I just would insert, insert California, insert Florida for, for each of those. And. And then I could just import those pages.
Chris LaFay: You'll basically duplicate the Oregon page as many times as you want, change Oregon to New Hampshire, edit the paragraph tag and then select from the drop down menu New Hampshire. Done.
Rob Fess: Okay, so that is, that is duplicating, not importing though, right? That's because.
Chris LaFay: Yeah, yeah.
Rob Fess: Because can we. In that's the, the other question I guess was can we just do import and import all 49 other states into duplicate pages? Like does that, does that how that works Again, forgive me for not fully understanding, but is that what we're going to be able to do? Or it's. And I don't care which way we just got to figure it out though is do I do like you said, duplicate Oregon, call it California Paste. In the California stuff, change the California image and then select California from the drop down and then do that again and make it New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, whatever. Or is there a way to say take this Oregon page, import, you know, duplicate it 50 times, 49 times and import all these states into it and.
Chris LaFay: All the copy and doesn't matter however you want to do it. If Andrew wants to export that page's content, write some sort of spreadsheet functionality and then do an import, that's fine, right? Or you can just push the duplicate button and do what you said in option number one. Either of the two is I'll play with those.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah, I think Rob, I'll help you on that one. The faster way will be import. If we have a dialed template of a spreadsheet that we can then import. So I think that would be the best one. And then I would just overwrite the values in the spreadsheet of if it's Oregon, Florida, the copy and stuff like that, I could do it straight in the spreadsheet as opposed to doing it in the back end here, page by page, you know, so I can help on that one. So we have the two routes, we just need to play with it. Right, right on the, on the id I forget if it's blank and URL, it'll auto generate the URL of the page based on the page name column. Right. But I don't need to create an ID. It'll auto generate an ID on what I import.
Chris LaFay: I. I'm 99 sure that's the case because you can import pages and page like the whole purpose of this is to like one of two things. One of the purposes is to take an Excel spreadsheet and dump stuff into a database, into WordPress. So yes, the ID would be created. I think if you add the ID and I think it does, it defaults to a page update. Don't quote me on that. It's been a while since I have personally used that tool. But their documentation on all that stuff is extraordinarily thorough. It's been around for of a lot long time.
Andrew Bernhardt: So okay, perfect. Yeah, I can see like that's the idea that basically drives this. So the. One of the question is just do we add an ID or not? I would assume the system might auto generate an id. Then I could play with it if I export what we import. So we'll. We'll play around with it. Yeah, but. Okay, so getting back to the list here, Rob, for next steps, I think we went through heroes. We went through all these little micro tweaks for styling. Was there anything particular to the home sections that you want to see?
Rob Fess: How do I. So we have top navs in the. On the home page. How do I edit those? I couldn't find it. And go to the edit page on that. Andrew, if you will.
Chris LaFay: It's actually not. It. It's actually not at the page level.
Rob Fess: So I was looking all over there and I couldn't.
Chris LaFay: No, it's. It's definitely global. And that actually might have been. That would have been in either one of the. Go to the dashboard for me. Actually. No menus. Let's hear. Scroll up for a second. Click on. Select a menu to edit. Drop down main menu. Click on Nav for me and then say click select.
Andrew Bernhardt: There we go.
Chris LaFay: I'm pretty sure that's it right there. Okay, let me double check because there's two ways to build them in WordPress now. There's a new way, old way. That right there is the older way to do it. It's not a bad way. It's not going to be going away anytime soon. Hold on one second, let me see. Can you have drop downs? Go click on. Let me test something out really quick. Not gonna tell you where to click on.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah, this is kind of out of the box, Rob. The easiest way, because as the pages are built, they'll be in this menu and you'll just drag them over. So the pages have to be built in order to add them to the nav.
Rob Fess: Okay. And it looks like. Looks like all of them have been updated too, with. With the latest things that. The challenge I had before is like I went to reviews, but it wasn't the reviews thing. It was just like a. Yeah.
Andrew Bernhardt: Once. Once the pages are built, then we would be able to link to them. So right here it's a hard link to prod, but what we could do is delete that if you wanted to see what it looks like. And if it's built in the left, you checkbox this and say add to menu and it's going to push it down to the very bottom right. It's kind of annoying.
Chris LaFay: Wait a second. So actually back up. So let's actually, let's pause that for a second. Click on the underneath appearance. Click on Editor for me. I'm sorry. On the left hand sidebar, under appearance, click on Editor and go ahead and say leave. It actually was built with the new version. Go over to Patterns. Should be under Patterns.
Andrew Bernhardt: So you don't need us to do the old school method. We can use this little widget.
Chris LaFay: So yeah, then go to Header on the left hand side and then there is your navigate. That is your entire header bar. So go ahead and click on that. And this actually works in a very similar building block style to the rest of the site, which is why WordPress calls their page editor the full site editor, because it all works very similarly. So click on the. The staircase on the top left or the table of contents. Expand out that group, expand out that row. And then underneath menu, you will have your menu right there. And so within this you will be able to add blocks which are basically just page links.
Rob Fess: Okay.
Chris LaFay: So if you click on. The way that I like to do it personally is if I wanted to add a link somewhere, I hover over one that I either want to add above or below. And it's like. So when you see the little ellipsis to the right of each of those. If you click on the ellipsis on the left hand sidebar, there's. Yeah, you almost had it. The little ellipses that comes up on the far right of that connect. Yep. And then you can say either add before or add after and that'll get you to be something. To get you into something very specific.
Rob Fess: Yeah. Okay, cool.
Chris LaFay: And then when you save it across the entire site.
Rob Fess: Sorry, you went from appearance to appearance.
Chris LaFay: To patterns to header. And then edit also. Yeah, this call is recorded as well too. So you can always go.
Andrew Bernhardt: Yeah, it's. It's like a little bit fancier. Any interface and a lot more ability to customize. So it's simple and could be very complex however you want to rig it up.
Rob Fess: Right.
Andrew Bernhardt: You go into appearance instead of just get old menus. The down and dirty one without a visual editor. This editor gives you the ability to visualize the menu a little better and customize the look and feel of it. So you go boom, go into Editor, then you're going to go into patterns for the header.
Rob Fess: Right.
Andrew Bernhardt: You could similarly do that probably for footer, but I'm in the header. So now we have one header. Right. Now if we redesign a header navigation, we could Build an alternate version. But this is all we have for now. And the stepping stones here take you into there.
Rob Fess: Cool. Yeah. Because right now I think we're good. I don't really want to mess with anything, but I think as once we get the. Because remember, this is all just to get us over to a place where now we can do whatever we want to do.
Chris LaFay: Yeah.
Rob Fess: Change up some links and all that sort of stuff.
Andrew Bernhardt: So for sure. So we, we. I think just because obviously for time on this meeting with the next steps for this week, we need probably a couple pages this week where we say fully done, that we can start duplicating. So do you want the hustle of any support hours to be on buyers, sellers, Rob, on your side, where this is the other missing contents added so that we can like start copying. Basically all the blocks are there. We can start working with it.
Rob Fess: Yeah, Yeah, I think. Okay. So buyer and seller. It'd be nice to have those like, you know, just done. And then the pages, the real duplicate work is going to. And a lot of the pages are in those map page, like the. The 50 state pages for the services, the 50 state pages for wholesale cannabis sellers, et cetera, et cetera. So yeah, I think that's where as long as that, like that. That California or Oregon page is. Is done or whatever we used for the. The services page is done, then I think we could start duplicating those pretty quickly. And then you said you're gonna. Chris, you said you're. You guys will be working on getting that state drop down there for the. For the flow in. For the API kind of basically what Andrew's looking at right there.
Chris LaFay: Yes. So I have on my list seven pages that need to be built. So we just need to remove one of these. It's in the reformatted tab. So I have both buyers and sellers here. I have the core services page.
Rob Fess: Sellers. Sellers isn't really on there because sellers, you guys already built. It's just not done.
Chris LaFay: Yes, we were building that as one of the templates at the beginning, but we stopped when that wasn't on the list of the 13, the 14 or so pages that we built before. So do you want us to continue going down and building sellers as a part of that or would you like us to only do the buyers page? I know both have a lot of things on them.
Rob Fess: Yeah, I kind of need both.
Chris LaFay: Okay. Actually here, hold on. So I'm looking at this Google Doc, Oregon is on here, which we already have Oregon done. So.
Rob Fess: Well, hold up though. That was Oregon service page, not Oregon wholesale.
Chris LaFay: Okay, got it.
Rob Fess: Yeah, sorry.
Chris LaFay: Nope, no worries.
Rob Fess: Yeah, because that's. So that's what I'm trying to figure out here. So the. That page is for the guides page. That is you're going to add the map because right now it has those couple like Michigan, California and Massachusetts or something there. So that's what that was about. So that's again, pushback. Feel free. What I'm saying is that's an update to an existing page. So we might still be within our scope. But if, if you're feeling like it's getting too scope creepy. I don't know, because I'm trying to figure out what we could dump off of here because it's sort of like service and services subpage and then guides and guides sub page and then buyer, seller and services. I guess if we were going to drop off one or the other, I would say we could drop off buyers because ultimately the buyers pay. This buyer's page is sort of a duplicate of the seller's page, and that would be one of these ones where we could shift and drop all the, you know, this is like we'll duplicate and drop all the buyer content in there.
Chris LaFay: Okay, so we're gonna go ahead. So you want to drop the buyer's page off of the list?
Rob Fess: If we have to, yes. If you get, if you're feeling, if you're feeling like a little crazy while you're making the seller's page, feel free to make the buyer's page.
Chris LaFay: But, you know, if you want us to build these out or any, any other ones, we can do that. There will be an additional cost to it as well.
Rob Fess: Right, Right.
Chris LaFay: But is it worth. Is it worth having that discussion? Because I know for a little while you were thinking about having us build out even more. So.
Rob Fess: Yeah.
Chris LaFay: Would you like to expand this out so that there are more of these pages built?
Rob Fess: Let's not yet. Because like I said, the reality of what the buyer and seller pages are is one of the pages that I would assume we're able to just do what I said quickly, like duplicate the. The seller's page, change some content around, change the URL slug, and it's. Now we have the buyer's page. Because that's what I'm hoping, like all of this site will be like at the end of the day. So that if I want to make another map page, all I have to do is, you know, duplicate that whole segment, change some things around, you know, API or whatever we do in the future. Outside of when you guys are involved and then we can duplicate it. So I'm hoping the seller page goes just like that. So, yeah, let's just go with what you have there for right now.
Chris LaFay: Okay. So in terms of wrapping this up, because I want to make sure that this doesn't end up being something that drags on for weeks and another week.
Rob Fess: Yep, yep.
Chris LaFay: So in terms of wrapping this up, what we're going to do is we're going to build out these remaining six pages. Yep. Record videos as these are being built out. Primarily the sellers page, because that has most of everything you need on there.
Rob Fess: Yeah.
Chris LaFay: These are going to be videos where just a developer is kind of talking as he is building these things out.
Rob Fess: Perfect.
Chris LaFay: And so they won't. They might be a little bit lengthier, but they will have all the different parts and pieces inside of them. So we'll deliver you those videos. You'll have these pages at your disposal and all of these videos will basically address all the questions within the disconnected request sections. How to change background colors, how to reorder testimonials, where's the sellers page, edit the main navigation, etc. Etc.
Rob Fess: Oh, yeah, sorry, I saw one when I looked there. When you said that that hero carousel that's on the homepage, is that something that does exist, is being completed, will exist or.
Chris LaFay: No, no, we weren't going to build out the carousel. That was something that we talked about a little bit at the beginning.
Rob Fess: Okay, yeah, sorry, there's a lot of moving parts, so just.
Chris LaFay: Yeah, no, you're. No, no worries. I also, I don't recommend typically speaking unless you are in an E commerce setting. I typically don't recommend carousels just because nobody uses them anymore. No, not at all. If you're on Amazon, you're probably going to slide through them, but that's really about it.
Andrew Bernhardt: I have to hop. I know some of you guys may have. Okay. But Rob, I'll be helping you on duplication versus import. I'll help run with that.
Rob Fess: Okay.
Andrew Bernhardt: And yeah, we'll work together on that whole piece. I'm going to test both methods basically so we can kind of see what. What's more difficult, what's easier and time track it all that.
Rob Fess: Awesome. Thank you.
Chris LaFay: So I want to wrap up before you had. I want to wrap that, Andrew. Thank you, sir. So we have these six pages that are outlined the the California Rules and Regulations Services, the Wholesale Cannabis, Oregon Sellers, Sellers Order Management Software, and then the updates to the guide page. Those are our six pages that we are doing these builds on.
Rob Fess: Yeah, I'm gonna. I'm gonna change it up. Sorry, last minute change up. I'm good with it. We can dump that whole. Or the sellers wholesale cannabis sellers order management page. I think I can survive better with that. And then swap that one out for buyers. Okay. Because then it's a. Yeah.
Chris LaFay: Okay, perfect. Went ahead and made that note. We'll record those videos. Yep. And then we will build out that last building block for the API. All of that will be done within scope.
Rob Fess: Okay.
Chris LaFay: Outside of that, there is. We have in our contract, we have a limit of three QA rounds. We haven't really done official QA rounds, but we've done a lot of QA process on the site.
Rob Fess: Sure.
Chris LaFay: So anything after these, any changes that are going to be made will need to be batched up and another QA round will cost $2500.
Rob Fess: Okay.
Chris LaFay: So just. I like being clear about this, making sure that we're. We've kind of gone on this very reactive space and I want to kind of narrow us down and kind of get us back into kind of an organized and structured fashion here. So all of this stuff will be delivered over to you. You'll have all the videos that you need to be successful in these things. But if outside of just taking the website live on WP engine, that'll be the remaining thing. So I'm going to talk with my developer, Don and I will talk to one of our developers about getting the remaining things that he's done and get back with you on the timeline of it.
Rob Fess: Right.
Chris LaFay: And then when we pass all that over, the next step for us is going to be switching over the DNS and taking it live. And so what are we.
Rob Fess: So what are we missing that we had to kind of talk through these things? Like you said, like after I get all of the content pages up and before you flip the switch, basically. Is there a QA on your side still that exists? Because now we're dealing with everything that's kind of formatted or like, what is there. Is. What's the next QA on. On your side? Is there a QA on your side or this is.
Chris LaFay: So the last month's worth of changes and edits that we've done has been those QA pieces.
Rob Fess: Okay.
Chris LaFay: So we've spent. We have spent all of our time doing all of these pieces of. Of qa.
Rob Fess: And is there anything we're missing because of these times that we've spent that you're. Is. Is that what you're trying to Explain to me, like, because we did all of this stuff, we're not going to do this thing unless we pay more, or are you saying we're on track, everything's good. But this is that QA work that you were talking about.
Chris LaFay: So in our. In our contract, we have the three rounds of QA right? Over the last month is. Or so. I don't know. It's like right before Christmas, up to about. Right. Like right now, we never really did dedicated rounds of QA where it's like, hey, we're passing this off to you. Bring it back to us with things. We've kind of been very reactive and in flux over the last month or so. And so the QA process, which is to kind of get the website to a standardized format, that was the purpose of the QA process, right? That is done. So even though we ended up ending up switching from a. More like, this is round one. Give it to us within 24 hours. We're going to go edit it. We're not going to talk for a few days now. We're going to go do our second round. Give us your feedback. We're going to go away for a few days and do that. Rinse and repeat. We basically did this live reactive QA process throughout the last month or so.
Rob Fess: Cool that we're not missing anything. You're not saying something's not going to happen along the way. We've already done it through a different. Correct.
Chris LaFay: Yes. So we. This right here is our lap. Basically, what I'm saying is this is our last round of qa. Qa, we're building out these six pages. We're going to build out that block, and that building out that block is not a part of qa. We're going to build out that block that's going to look exactly like the icon pods that dynamic pulls all the stuff in from the API. And we're going to give you all these videos. And technically speaking, the videos are out of scope because we've already have recorded all of them in the format that we normally do them in. But since we're building these pages, recording videos is not going to take that much longer if a developer just records as he is building. And so while those videos, there might be some pauses and some dead air while they're building. You will see how they're building them. So those videos are not going to be like these nice and tight formats of, like, let's. Let's build a page and, like, has it, like, nicely organized and structured. There might be Some dead minutes where they're trying to figure out, like, oh, hey, this is what's happening. Yeah.
Rob Fess: As long as they say out loud what they did, I don't care. If it's a secret, then I don't know.
Chris LaFay: Yeah. So that'll be a way that we keep everything there. But if. And if there's any other thing outside, once this is delivered, and dawn will kind of give you what the timeline of that is later this week. Sorry, I forgot what day of the week we were in. The next thing that we'll do is take the site live. So if anything, code needs to be touched, we'll go into what is going to technically be called a fourth QA round, and that'll be $2,500.
Rob Fess: Okay, now that's fine. But if the challenge is something that you guys did, do we pay for whatever we're gonna go through? I guess that's my only challenge is the. If I'm having problems other than the fact that I don't understand how something works or something like that. But if there's, like, something fundamental, I don't think there's any going to be anything. But it's just odd that if there's something wrong in what you deliver, why are. Why are we. Isn't it like we're looking at the work. We're reviewing the work that you've done, and then, like, these new six pages, and I say, oh, that page is jacked up. And you're like, oh, yeah, it is. I mean, do. Is that a QA round? That's what I'm really not understanding. I'm. I'm fine with the. Like you said, we've done this through this dynamic route. We've done these things. But if I get something that's needs dynamic or structured discussion, I don't know why. If it's a deliverable on your end, and I'm not trying to be confrontational, I don't know why. If it's a deliver. A deliverable on your end that doesn't deliver, it goes back to us. Am I understanding incorrectly or correctly? I don't know.
Chris LaFay: So that's what we have been doing. So we have been doing the QA process. So there. There has to be a. There has to be a limit to qa. It can't be forever. And so throughout the last month and a half, we have done these QAs. And the thing, at this point, stylistically speaking, structurally speaking, everything is kind of getting to this point of where we're wrapping up things with a bow. If that custom block that we build doesn't work, we'll fix the custom block. But everything else is actively working and is and kind of like through all the videos and stuff that we've already sent is showcase that it does work and is working as expected. And so all we're going to basically be doing is building new pages and showing you the building process. And so the that QA process has been what's done. So the only new thing is going to be that one custom block. Everything else is all stuff that's in existence already. Right.
Rob Fess: Like I said, I'll assume everything that comes is going to be good and we won't have any challenges. So there we go.
Chris LaFay: There we go. Alrighty. Well, we're gonna go ahead and wrap it up for today. Thank you.
Rob Fess: Thanks for going over too. Sorry.
Chris LaFay: Yep, no problem at all. I hope you have a good rest of day and I'll catch you later.
Rob Fess: You too. Thank you.
Chris LaFay: Bye.