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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, journalists, and rest of community. See next chapter to solve this.

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, journalists, and rest of community. See next chapter to solve this.

Also, the Dolibarr foundation will not pay for Google adwords campaigns to promote your web site if it uses a too different logo.

Also, the Dolibarr foundation will NOT pay for Google adwords campaigns to promote your web site if it uses a too different logo.

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.

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. If main links are at bottom, of you page, just add visible flags at top.

Also, the Dolibarr foundation may not pay for Google adwords campaigns 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 this rule is not applied (today users trust only international solution, and we know that not doing this is a a communication error making everybody waste its time).

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. If main links are at bottom, of you page, just add visible flags at top.

11) Your portal must provide a demo area.

Also, the Dolibarr foundation will not pay for Google adwords campaigns to promote your web site if it uses a too different look.

If you offer a commercial hosting solution, you must show, onto same page, both links to your commercial solution and link to a free shared online demo. Also links to your commercial solution must point to another page than the demo page and prices must appears only on this second page, not on main demo page.  

Just take a look at page used on dolibarr.org to see how it must be: http://www.dolibarr.org/onlinedemo

Goal is to keep a separation between OpenSource project and commercial offers. Don't think this rule will slow down your business, our experience show it is the opposite. Users don't trusts a project that start to show prices (they just do not enter into demo. Trust us, everybody wins to match this rule.

Also, the Dolibarr foundation will NOT pay for Google adwords campaigns to promote your web site if this rule is not applied (just because we know working like is a waste of time).

12) Your portal must provide a demo area.

12) 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.

If you offer a commercial hosting solution, you must show, onto same page, both links to your commercial solution and link to a free shared online demo. Also links to your commercial solution must point to another page than the demo page.

Also, the Dolibarr foundation MAY not pay for Google adwords campaigns to promote your web site if it uses a too different look.

Just take a look at page used on dolibarr.org to see how it must be: http://www.dolibarr.org/onlinedemo

Goal is to keep a separation between OpenSource project and commercial offers. Don't think this rule will slow down your business, our experience show it is the opposite. Users don't trusts OpenSource Solution with a direct free online demo. Trust us, everybody wins to math this rule.

Also, the Dolibarr foundation will not pay for Google adwords campaigns to promote your web site if this rule is not applied.

13) 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).

13) 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).