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Website Structure
Pages – Only Direct Landing Pages and Thank you pages should be uploaded here
Thought Leaderships – Previously known as Press releases. Any press release that is more blog worthy than being a news item
Press Releases – Items that refer to new management, changes in the business etc
Assets – Posted in the Posts section of wordpress
- whitepapers
- customer success stories
- videos
- webinars
- factsheets
- brochures
- ebooks
- analyst reports
Please only use one category, a relevant industry tag and related topics (upto 4)
Members – Exco and regional staff
ISV Partners – Upload the partner name, short description, partner thumbnail, partner long description
Partners – Upload the partner name, short description, partner thumbnail, select the region that the partner falls within
Using the Templates Page for Design
-Copy and Paste sections from the template page into the new page
-Ensure the use of the breadcrumbs header
-Followed by the header banner image
-Followed by the grey intro section
Guidelines to using other template sections.
– for square bullet points – use text widget from the template. After pasting the widget simply add this css class to the widget. syspro-list-style
-buttons should be orange and copied directly from the templates page
-saved sections with shortcodes (global sections) –> This can be found in the dashboard of wordpress > Templates > Saved Templates > Section
-fonts and colors used within a page should be chosen from the global settings.
NB: DO NOT MAKE CHANGES TO THE TEMPLATES PAGE
Syncing / Push to live
New Page: If a page/post is Global:
Corporate will upload the content on webdev.syspro.com > push to usuat.syspro.com
We will inform you that the content now appears on USUAT – you can then login, make regional changes to the content and then push to the live site using the WP-sync plugin.
New Page: If a page/post is US specific, please upload the content to usuat.syspro.com then push to the US live site using the sync plugin.
Changes to pages/posts
Makes changes to the usuat.syspro.com site, then push to US live site.
Icon Usage
Do’s
-preferably use line icons
-use icons from the elementor pack or svgs that have been uploaded to the site
-use solid icons if a line icon version is not available
-Primary color =blue
secondary=green
light version= light grey
dark monotone= dark grey
hover color=orange (only where needed to showcase the a box/link can be clicked)
Don’ts
-use gradients on icons
-use images as icons
-exceed 25px in icon size
Uploading Assets
Do’s
-attached a relevant category that the asset fits into (only 1)
-attach a thumbnail png (correct to the relevant size that we are using on the site)
-have a title that is relevant to the actual asset name
-have content as a description
-select a relevant industry tag (ie. manufacturing or distribution or both)
-select related tags (upto 4 )
Chat to ray about gating the assets
Don’ts
-upload an asset without a thumbnail
-select multiple categories
-add your own tags and categories
-leave the asset uncategorized
Imagery
Do’s
-check for relevant size needed for a new image (eg. a thumbnail for an asset should be the same size as other similar thumbnails)
-name your image with a relevant title and no space in between. Use dashes as space (eg.my-new-image)
-compress your image (use this site)
-use SYSPRO corporate style imagery
Don’ts
-upload duplicate images! check the media library to ensure that you do indeed need to upload a new image
-upload files that exceed 200kb
-add striking color backgrounds to imagery
-never add background colors and gradients as imagery
301 Redirects
Do’s
-add a redirect only when necessary
-add your redirect to the US team redirect
-deindex pages that are not needed (chat to ralesh about this)
Don’ts
-create chain / duplicate redirects
-let redirects sit longer than 2months on the site
-redirect unnecessary 404’s (ie. pagination pages that are showing on google)