GitLab Digital Experience, 7 Oct 2021

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From YouTube: Digital Experience Release Video - Oct 7, 2021

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Digital Experience Handbook Page: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/inbound-marketing/digital-experience/
Digital Experience Release Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I9Th3Q-AakOkE_-pmNtEzwwMDSqYKF5Je2etGdPTovk/edit?usp=sharing

A

Hi everyone welcome to the digital experience team uh iteration, release video, so we'll go over. What we've uh accomplished over the last two week period um today is october. 7Th uh first step is javi. uh He can't make it to this meeting so I'll read for him. um It looks like uh he has a draft here for the review app on the y premium page and I guess that's in progress, um but this is built in the core marketing site, which is very exciting. As we start building up pages there, safari navigation bugs.

A

I believe this was just on mobile, so it looks like you did that data attributes for navigation ctas.

A

This shows a few pipeline failures that I think he was a little bit worried about which we might look into uh and then adding 10 alert box boxes in docs.

A

uh So this will allow us to check tracking license, um and I don't know if there's a link here, uh but we have url parameters on the free trial, page um yeah. I think that's it for him and next is stephen, uh which I think jess's I'll read for him. So the first thing there uh is also that why premium page she's got the figma there you can take a look at but um looks like hobbies, also already started the development on it.

A

um Okay, it doesn't open, that's fine, so the next thing is uh the um javi and steven. I know they're working on this um docs text box kind of driver- if you are you know, browsing our docs page you'll be able to uh maybe see an upgrade like hey you're on premium.

A

But if you went to ultimate, you could do x, y z, so I know they're looking at that and they put a spreadsheet together um kind of figuring out where to put these things, that's the next thing there um and then I can read for myself. That was it for steven.

A

um So the next thing up there is this uh enterprise page nbc3, it's um mostly just like kind of cleaning it up, making sure that everything is actually in slippers, um making sure we're linking out to things like customer case studies and like ci, cd or whatever happens to be on the page, making sure everything's up to speed um with that one and then oh we're also adding a video.

A

Instead of an illustration on the top and the second thing I've got going, there is the um features comparison table so right now, it's kind of just a laundry list of everything that getlab does. uh We used to have this on the pricing page and our sales team requested that we bring it back um so we're putting it on the features comparison page instead. So it's groupings of features rather than just like the laundry list.

A

So that way, if you're, like really interested in security, you just go look at the security section and see where it you know lines up and what, if it's in for your premium or ultimate um and that's it for me next is tina.

B

Thanks um so I've wrapped up um the first part of the um data driven blocks that are going to be displayed on the hero section of the home page, so mvc1 design is complete and development will start next um iteration and we also created a plan for future iterations on it so that we can actually um use real data to deliver content in those blocks. uh I also ended up working on a template for the 10-year anniversary page.

B

I just created a wireframe and passed that over to um I think matt is doing the design for it or maybe vic tyler's working on that. So this is just the the wireframe that I was involved in that um laura's, showing right now and last on my list is: I got pulled into creating a landing page for um corporate philanthropy, um so that's still a work in progress um and is with the legal department, um so that should uh it's that's slated to be developed next week.

B

So um I guess the engineer should be on standby. For that, that's it! For me, next is tyler.

C

Yeah, it's been a fun one. um We had done some iterations on the pricing faqs, which blew away some styles uh that we relied on in the standalone page. I wasn't aware of so um fixed up that uh just sort of pulled that stuff over um and then big stuff is. We got the uh buyer experience next site ready for production.

C

um So there were a couple cleanup items. uh There were just some like seo. Things had to do in the head tag: uh cleaned up, some of the existing like typescript stuff um and some of the formatting, so we'll figure out how to automate that so that we don't have to keep doing that um and so got that prepped and then I uh pivoted quick for the teaser page for the 10 year anniversary.

C

There's a laura's countdown block is in there um and I forgot who was, it might have been michael or someone but uh laura. So I was like how.

D

C

You do that so fast and I was like I didn't laura did uh so uh they loved it. I forgot who said that so many people have said things, but uh just uh compliments to you on that. um We moved the core marketing site and renamed it. It's buyer experience now, but it's the same thing and then, with that in place, uh it's it's in production, um the the older repo www.getlab.com pulls in the most recent artifacts built.

C

So every time you run a pipeline for the middleman site, it will pull in the most recent next site build um and then on the other side, the next site will push to the production google cloud bucket. So at this point it is time to treat buyer experience repository as production because, whatever ends up in the main branch will be pulled in by another repository or pushed up to that same repository, and we did some iterations on it to um uh to not run it a dozen times um unnecessarily whoops.

C

uh So now so now it just goes once, uh which is which is 12 times faster than doing it 12 times. uh So I made some huge performance improvements on the pipeline this week, uh 12x um after having made it 12x slower um and then uh I've got so. The 10-year anniversary page is like gonna. It's gonna happen, we're good to go.

C

I've got mrs and they're getting approvals, um but I don't have anything to show, because I don't have all the approvals in and I don't want to show the things unapproved, but they're going to happen uh this evening. I'll probably hit the buttons and up next is nate.

E

Yeah, I'm all over the place I was out last week, so this week was just chaotic. um One thing to kind of announce is that we filled all the nearshore roles, uh so I probably had like I don't even know, 10 or 20 interviews this past week or two, um but it's good, we're officially kind of done with that um and there's a couple things that popped up on prod with the core marketing site with the navigation.

E

So I fixed some of that stuff, some of the padding uh nothing too too wild um and then pricing there's some just some links on the pricing page that need to be redirected to like docs and just different places. uh So I updated that and then I started on the homepage. Personalization blocks that tina mentioned earlier. So I just started I'm hoping to get that out next week um and then I've been working on slippers, v1 a lot but unfortunately like it's still working right now, so it's not blocking anything.

E

So I kind of pushed it aside for now, as I get this personalization block out the door um but yeah, that's it for me, uh laura.

A

uh Yeah um I updated finally got around updating the orange on our uh slippers buttons to be a little bit slightly tiny bit darker, so they passed color contrast, so that's been put into slippers and then put it to dub, so that'll be for all the buttons that are using slippers styles or um our 2020 base styles. So some of them have gone, rogue and they're using their own like custom, hard-coded styles, so those ones haven't changed. Yet um I made a small update to the jobs page based on a few requests for new images.

A

Cookie manner might happen this week. Who knows? I live and sleep and breathe the cookie banner, um and thank you again to tyler for walking me through some video bugs with that, and then I set up the course site and got to do a little bit of work on the enterprise page, uh which I can show um a little preview. um But this is the video that jess was talking about um these all now, link out to their respective customer case. Pay case.

A

Study pages uh same with all of these guys I'll go out to you know. Wherever I don't know, my zoom thingy is like covering my there. We go uh okay, yeah and yeah, these all link out to like the ci, cicd page uh and so on, and so forth. um So a little bit of cleanup there, and I think that was it for me and next is barker.

D

All right uh so for this iteration released two more solution: pages the release, controls and code reviews. So now they have that new template. We added that zigzag block.

D

uh We um worked week linked the customer logos to case studies from the home page. So you know those now link to our beautiful case studies which allow the user to to dive in deeper there uh migrate at the small business page over to the buyer. Experience repo, so click you know, there's the view view layout. It shows how much cleaner that is, love it um a couple, mrs just to make the uh navigation text consistent.

D

There's some were capitalized some weren't um and then uh nathan, tyler and me worked on building the footer into the buyer. Experience repo! So that's in there and then lots of mrs came in um majority of them seo fixes so about 20 of those um yeah.

A

I think that's it good. Thank you. So much and we'll see you next time.