Make Web Team

2013 in Review

January

• Gigya/Maker Faire overhaul
• Overhaul CSS, LESS powered

February

• New Projects pages
• New Projects manager
• Async DFP (Reloadable ads, more performant)
• New author pages
• Rewrote the RSS engine to be more stramlined
• Sponsor management for Maker Faire web pages

March

• Projects refinements
• Maker Faire refinements
• MF exhibits pages
• MF JSON API
• New category pages

April

• MF Event management
• Maker Camp dev starts
• MF Schedule page
• MF Async ads
• Hired Amy

May

• Maker Import Scripts
• Form types
• Locations
• New CLI functions
• Signage for the Faire
• New volume page
• Projects updates for parts and tools
• Hardware innovation website
• Maker Camp website
• Bill transitions to full-time
• Hired Cole

June

• Prep for New York call for Makers
• Modal window builder
• /go/ urls ported back over to WordPress from CS.
• Presenter videos on Maker Faire
• blog.makezine.com => makezine.com (Yay!)
• Maker Camp Maker Camp Maker Camp

July

• Admin dashboard for Maker Faire
• Maker Faire stats scripts for admins
• Volume Dashboard
• Site Dashboard
• Editorial output for articles/projects/reviews
• Popdown menu

August

• New reports tools for Maker Faire
• Author rebuild
• Video/Image carousel
• Hired David

September

• New Sitemaps
• Maker Week
• World Maker Faire
• Logan Spurlock joins the MAKE family

October

• Moved to Agile workflow
• Elastic Search on MAKE

November

• Better 404 handling
• SEO updates
• New slideshow for gift guides
• Brought back the topbar
• Gigya overhaul

December

• Maker Faire application overhaul
• MAKE site optimizations

2014 Goals

• Implement Gigya on MAKE
• Redesigned Projects
• Responsive Design
• Better form system for Maker Faire
• Maker Updates
• New Mini Maker Faire toolkit
• Hot Dog Thursdays
• Maker Shed Migration
• Shed integration on MAKE