TNEW Digital Content Page - Design Inspiration

These are great looking examples and quite inspiring! 

Have you all set up your /content viewing page before putting your content on sale? I'm asking because I'm unsure of how to go about testing the content of the page without making it visible to everyone who has already purchased it. We have our first digital production coming up and I want to confirm it's working before flipping the "available" switch in TNEW. 

You can work in your QA system and then Select All Copy Paste when you're ready. Or you can select a random (test) Production Season you want in your Live Environment, work everything out while looking at something no one else will see, and then Paste it all over to the real thing. You'll be on the wrong url and you may end up willfully ignoring a Title displayed somewhere, but the part you need to review will be fine.

The other idea I've had around this (brainstorming something this summer with Chris Bisgard) is to have one set of content stored at the Production Season level and another on a specific performance. We were thinking about how to do a really quick content update during irregular hours (e.g. change the language under the embed of a live stream event once it ends at 10pm). You'd be able to do all the work ahead of time, including full proofreading and link checks, and then have the late night task be merely a quick toggle of something being on. Anyway, I don't think either of us has pursued it so that above is quite half-baked, but food for thought, no?

This all being said, while I did all my proof of concept work completely out of site to the public, I really just work live to update. It's a very specific type of page, available to very specific people, in very specific instances and I'm comfortable assuming that it's pretty unlikely someone is using the page while I'm dropping in new links. If you can manage to do most of your work well ahead of when someone is trying to pull up the content, you probably have some leeway. (And I love <!-- commmenting --> code out between getting the set up figured out and making links actually live...)

You can work in your QA system and then Select All Copy Paste when you're ready. Or you can select a random (test) Production Season you want in your Live Environment, work everything out while looking at something no one else will see, and then Paste it all over to the real thing. You'll be on the wrong url and you may end up willfully ignoring a Title displayed somewhere, but the part you need to review will be fine.

The other idea I've had around this (brainstorming something this summer with Chris Bisgard) is to have one set of content stored at the Production Season level and another on a specific performance. We were thinking about how to do a really quick content update during irregular hours (e.g. change the language under the embed of a live stream event once it ends at 10pm). You'd be able to do all the work ahead of time, including full proofreading and link checks, and then have the late night task be merely a quick toggle of something being on. Anyway, I don't think either of us has pursued it so that above is quite half-baked, but food for thought, no?

This all being said, while I did all my proof of concept work completely out of site to the public, I really just work live to update. It's a very specific type of page, available to very specific people, in very specific instances and I'm comfortable assuming that it's pretty unlikely someone is using the page while I'm dropping in new links. If you can manage to do most of your work well ahead of when someone is trying to pull up the content, you probably have some leeway. (And I love <!-- commmenting --> code out between getting the set up figured out and making links actually live...)