How-to Guides

These guides have been developed to help Webvision Cloud clients tackle key tasks relating to their websites.

New guides are always being added. Please let your Account Director know if there is anything missing that you would like to be covered.

Below are the most common tasks, view all how to guides.

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Content Management

Choosing and uploading images

Make sure your site is fully optimised by finding out which format of an image to use and when, how automatic cropping works and how best to save images from Photoshop.

How to create a topics index page

Many sites have pages about companies, or services, or people, which would benefit from a topics index page linking through to all of the items. In the case of thestrad.com, they have a page listing artists.

How to create an A-Z of navigation items

Where a section of the site comprises multiple pages about similar items – for example companies, countries, suppliers, universities, etc – it can be useful to have a page that includes links to those pages listed in alphabetic order.

How to create collapsible sections of a page

Open / Close accordion sections.

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ADvance

How to restrict and stop users from purchasing a specific offer or variant

If you have a special offer that you would like to stop people from continually purchasing or a promotion that only certain users can be eligible for, then you can use a BI filter to stop users from purchasing either an entire product offer or a specific set of product ...

Auto-segment your audience to deliver targeted content and advertising

Easily segment your audience based on Business Intelligence filters that automatically process your customer data.

How to add Google reCAPTCHA

Abacus recommends having Google reCAPTCHA enabled on your site registration form as this is a good security practice against spam and abuse.

How to set up the right-hand column of the “My Account” page

In order to make the look of the subdomain pages consistent with the other website logged in user profile pages, the “my account options” element can be included in the relevant account pages. This is done by including an iframe in the web right hand column content of the form ...

Google tools and services