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10) Put on top of your "Dolibarr XXX portal", a link with flags to others majors communities (for the moment, link to international web site http://www.dolibarr.org, french portal http://www.dolibarr.fr and spanish portal http://www.dolibarr.es). Links must appears on TOP of Home page and be visible by visitor with no need to move and scrollbar.+11) If you don't plan to animate a dedicated social networks, add, on front page of your portal web site, links to official (english) Dolibarr social Networks. You will find list of links on page [[FAQ How to be informed on news about Dolibarr project ?]]. Using a box "Social Networks" like the one found on http://www.dolibarr.org is a good thing. If you want to animate your own local social Networks, you can replace international links with yours, but try to always keep a link at least for "Facebook", "Twitter" and "Google+" (use english links if you don't covers them for your language).+12) If you don't plan to animate a dedicated forum (it is better having no forum than having a forum you don't answer), add a link to official (english) Dolibarr forum (http://dolibarr.org/forum) with text "Forum (english only)".+13) Add a google analytics tag into all of your portal pages. Then add the dolibarr foundation email (assodolibarr@gmail.com) to be allowed to have read only access on Google analytics views or setup your Google analytics to send monthly reports to the foundation Google analytics account (assodolibarr@gmail.com).+14) ''If you are a foundation only:'' Install Dolibarr to manage your members and create a generic account for international foundation and sent it to '''contact@dolibarr.org''' (you will probably start with only two or three members, we started like this too !).+15) Once all steps are done, this means you are ready to animate your community (see next chapter). +
9) The logo used on your web portal must match the logo found on dolibarr.org except it must includes the name of the country/community under it. For example, for France, logo should contains France under it, like found into http://www.dolibarr.fr
9) The logo used on your web portal must match the logo found on dolibarr.org except it must includes the name of the country/community under it. For example, for France, logo should contains France under it, like found into http://www.dolibarr.fr
+Having a logo showing "Dolibarr TheCountry", is a way to say customer it's not another different project with same name, but the same, just declined for "TheCountry". However, it's not enough, and experience shows that web site that does not comply with dolibarr.org skin, are just web sites discarded by users, press people, and rest of community. See next chapter to solve this.
−Having too many different Dolibarr with different looks may create a threat for customers thinking your web site is a "parallel" different project. So try to avoid this, it deserve your goal and users will not trust you web site. Having a logo showing "Dolibarr TheCountry", is a way to say customer it's not another different project with same name, but the same, just declined for "TheCountry". However, it's not enough, and experience shows that web site that does not comply with dolibarr.org skin, are just web sites discarded by users, press people, and rest of community.
+10) Having too many different Dolibarr, with different looks create a threat for customers, thinking your web site is a "parallel" different project. So try to avoid this, it deserve your goal and users will not trust your web site. So try to keep same skin (colors) and same entries into horizontal menu than dolibarr.org.
−Also, the Dolibarr foundation will not pay for Google adwords campaign to promote your web site if it uses a too different look.
+Also, the Dolibarr foundation will not pay for Google adwords campaigns to promote your web site if it uses a too different look.
−11) Put on top of your "Dolibarr XXX portal", a link with flags to others majors communities (for the moment, link to international web site http://www.dolibarr.org, french portal http://www.dolibarr.fr and spanish portal http://www.dolibarr.es). Links must appears on TOP of Home page and be visible by visitor with no need to move and scrollbar.
−12) If you don't plan to animate a dedicated social networks, add, on front page of your portal web site, links to official (english) Dolibarr social Networks. You will find list of links on page [[FAQ How to be informed on news about Dolibarr project ?]]. Using a box "Social Networks" like the one found on http://www.dolibarr.org is a good thing. If you want to animate your own local social Networks, you can replace international links with yours, but try to always keep a link at least for "Facebook", "Twitter" and "Google+" (use english links if you don't covers them for your language).
The Dolibarr foundation will also edit the dolibarr.org portal to add link into "local communities" box.
The Dolibarr foundation will also edit the dolibarr.org portal to add link into "local communities" box.
−13) If you don't plan to animate a dedicated forum (it is better having no forum than having a forum you don't answer), add a link to official (english) Dolibarr forum (http://dolibarr.org/forum) with text "Forum (english only)".
−14) Add a google analytics tag into all of your portal pages. Then add the dolibarr foundation email (assodolibarr@gmail.com) to be allowed to have read only access on Google analytics views or setup your Google analytics to send monthly reports to the foundation Google analytics account (assodolibarr@gmail.com).
Note: To share a readonly access to statistics of a site, go onto home statistics page of this site into google analytics, then click onto the linke "Admin" on top bar on the left. Then click on tab "Users" and add assodolibarr@gmail.com as a new user.
Note: To share a readonly access to statistics of a site, go onto home statistics page of this site into google analytics, then click onto the linke "Admin" on top bar on the left. Then click on tab "Users" and add assodolibarr@gmail.com as a new user.
−15) ''If you are a foundation only:'' Install Dolibarr to manage your members and create a generic account for international foundation and sent it to '''contact@dolibarr.org''' (you will probably start with only two or three members, we started like this too !).
−16) Once all steps are done, this means you are ready to animate your community (see next chapter).
Let us know by email to '''contact@dolibarr.org''' (Note: sending us email more frequently to show us where you are is better).
Let us know by email to '''contact@dolibarr.org''' (Note: sending us email more frequently to show us where you are is better).
We will check your online site, and if the foundation owns the TLD domain dolibarr.xx for your country, we will make (if all previous steps are ok) a redirected for the domaine name to your web site. If domain name for your country is not owned by foundation yet, you can buy it by yourself. If already owned by someone else, the foundation can provide you a domain like xx.dolibarr.org with xx your country code.
We will check your online site, and if the foundation owns the TLD domain dolibarr.xx for your country, we will make (if all previous steps are ok) a redirected for the domaine name to your web site. If domain name for your country is not owned by foundation yet, you can buy it by yourself. If already owned by someone else, the foundation can provide you a domain like xx.dolibarr.org with xx your country code.