Applies to: PastPerfect Online add-on for Version 5.0
What are Quick Links?
Quick Links are shortcuts added to your PastPerfect Online site to help guide web visitors towards specific pages on your site. These could be individual records (e.g., highlighting staff favorites) or search results (e.g., a pre-done search for a collection name to list all records within that collection).
Quick Links are formatted using HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading StyleSheets), so the PPO team is happy to set these up for you.
What does the PPO team need to set up my Quick Links?
The basic information we need is:
- The text and images to be displayed
- If the images are attached to catalog records and shared online, you can simply send links to the respective records on your site. If there are multiple images for the record, indicate which specific image should be used.
- If the images are not online, please email them to us as individual image files, preferably in JPG or PNG format. If images need to be cropped, please do so prior to emailing the files. There is no specific size requirement, but between 200 and 400 pixels is generally a good size for most layouts. Be sure the images have the correct height to width ratio for how you want them to be displayed.
- What URL goes with each link
- This can be a link to Keyword Search results, Advanced Search results, a catalog record, a Search Term or Creator record, etc.
- Navigate to the record or perform the search, then copy and paste the URL from your browser’s address bar. By visiting the record and performing the search yourself, you can confirm that the record and results are appearing as expected
- Indication of layout/order, especially in relation to current content
- If you can create and send a mockup, even a very basic one, that is incredibly helpful to help us "see" what you are envisioning.
- Don’t feel like you need to only choose from what you have seen in examples! Please send us information if you have a different idea in mind. If it is not possible for some reason, we can suggest an alternate idea.
How do I get started?
If you haven’t already thought about the way you would like your Quick Links to look, begin by browsing through some examples in the PPO User Guide: Quick Link Examples.
Email the information listed in the "What does the PPO team need to set up my Quick Links?" question to pposupport@museumsoftware.com. We also have a "Quick Links Template" Word document available in the Resources below that you can download and fill out. The "Quick Links Template EXAMPLES" document demonstrates how this template can be filled out using our demo sites.
After our team has received the information about your links, they will let you know if they have any questions and provide a timeline for when your links will be ready to review. Your links will be initially set up on a test site so you can look it over and request any changes. Once you have approved the design, we will move it to your live site.
How do I update my Quick Links later?
If your links go to search results, any new records you upload to your site will be automatically included as long as they match the search criteria for your link – there’s nothing else that needs to be done!
When you would like to add new links or swap out old ones, reach out to pposupport@museumsoftware.com with the new text, images, and links.
Resources
- User Guide: Creating "Quick Search" Links on your Landing Page
- User Guide: Quick Link Examples