Pre and post-launch checklist for the IIT College of Architecture website.

Lingering To-Dos

• [x] Separate S3 buckets for prod + staging
• [x] Image Alt Text
• [x] Header Change?
• [x] Cookie Consent Banner
• [x] Redirects + Retour

Pre-Launch

• [x] Favicon
• [x] 404
• [x] Eager Loading
• [x] HTML validation
• [x] SEOmatic config
• [x] Craft icon and logo
• [x] User permissions
• [x] Preview Server
• [x] Deprecation errors
• [x] Google Analytics

Launch Process

• [x] Freeze the user accounts in the staging CMS and grab an export of the database.
• [x] Import staging db dump into the production db.
• [x] Merge dev branch into main and deploy to make sure code is fully up to date.
• [x] In Forge, update the Site Domain for the preview site in Forge to be arch.iit.edu
• [x] Run through the post-launch checklist.
• [x] One final check of the front-end and CMS

Post-Launch

• [x] .env set to production
• [x] Ensure SSL cert
• [x] Test www redirect
• [x] Test https redirect
• [x] User accounts unfrozen
• [x] SEOmatic set to live
• [x] Google Analytics added to SEOmatic
• [ ] Data feeding into Google Analytics