Website Settings
Introduction
Website Settings allow you to customize various aspects of your website to align with your business branding and user experience needs. The important configurations are summarized below:
Landing Page:
Set the default landing page for your website.
Website Theme:
Customize the overall theme of your website.
Brand:
Upload and set your brand logo and favicon.
Top Bar:
Customize the menu items in the website's navigation bar.
Banner:
Add a persistent banner above the navigation bar on all pages.
Footer:
Include address information and categorized links in the footer.
Google Integrations:
Set up Google Indexing and Google Analytics.
Access Website Settings
To access Website Settings, go to: Home > Website > Setup > Website Settings
The Website Settings are split across the following tabs:
Home
Navbar
Footer
Integrations
Headers
Redirects
Let us look at the various settings under each tab that can be configured:
Home
The important settings under the Home are explained below:
Landing Page
Configure the default landing page of your website by setting the Homepage field to the route of that page. You can put any route here including standard routes like home, about, contact, login, all-products, and blog.
You can also set a Web Page as the landing page.
If you want to use the iVendNext Homepage, you must set it as home.
You can also set the Title Prefix here. It will be appended to the browser title on every page. You can put your company name here.
Website Theme
Create a personalized theme for your Website and set it here. Learn more about configuring Website Themes here.
Navbar
The important settings under the Navbar are explained below:
Brand Logo
You can set the brand logo for your website in this section. Upload the Brand Image first and then click on the "Set Banner from Image" button. It will generate a Banner HTML with your uploaded logo.
Favicon
You can also set the favicon of your website in this section. It appears on the left side of the browser tab. View your website by clicking on View Website in the action bar on top right.
Website with Brand and Favicon
Top Bar
You can customize the menu items in the navbar of your website from the Top Bar section.
Website Navbar Items
Banner
You can add a persistent banner to your website which will be shown above the navbar on all web pages. You can write any valid Bootstrap 4 markup here.
Website Banner
Footer
The important settings under the Footer are explained below:
You can add address information and categorized links to your footer in the Footer section.
Website Footer
Configuring "Powered by" Section
You can configure Powered by section by editing "Footer Powered By"
Integrations
The important settings under the Integrations are explained below:
Google Indexing
In order to allow iVendNext to request Google crawlers to index a web page, you need to authorize iVendNext to send a request whenever the user requests the data.
Google Drive Integration
Google Drive Integration is set up with the following steps:
Create OAuth 2.0 Credentials via Google Settings
Enable indexing in the Website Settings
Now click on Authorize API Indexing Access to authorize iVendNext to send a publish request.
Once Authorized, an indexing request is automatically sent on creation/update/trash of any new blog post or web pages created via the user.
Google Analytics
You can enable Google Analytics on your website. Just get your Google Analytics ID from your Google Console and set it here.
By default, Google Analytics will collect the full IP address of your website visitors. By checking "Google Analytics Anonymize IP", iVendNext will instruct Google Analytics to anonymize the IP address before it is sent to Google servers. You can find out more about the effect of this setting in Google's documentation.
Header and Robots
The important settings under the Header and Robots are explained below:
Header
You can use this section to set meta tags across all of your web pages. A common use case is to add Google site verification tags.
Robots
You can define robots.txt rules in this section. This information is used by web crawlers to decide which pages to index and which to skip. Learn more about robots.txt at Moz - Robots.txt
Redirects
The important settings under the Redirects are explained below:
You can define a mapping of route redirects here. The mappings in the following screenshot makes sure that if a user visits https://apple.ivendnext.com/iphone, they will be redirected to https://apple.ivendnext.com/products/iphone.
iVendNext will raise a 301 Permanent Redirect response for these routes.
If you are migrating your existing website to iVendNext based website, you can map your old routes to new ones here and these redirects will be picked up by Google and will help you maintain your SEO rankings.
Chat
You can enable website visitor chat on your website in the Chat section. The chat widget will be shown between From time and To time. You can also set Chat Operators (Users) who will get notified when a visitor sends a message. Chat is an experimental feature.