The following points are strongly recommended by the team at Stimme der Hoffnung to be completed by a Hope Channel partner before they go-live with their new website. It is the partner's choice, when they will take the site live. However there are elements in the list below which, if not completed could lead to either a less than desirable website appearance, or could lead to technical problems, examples being that SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Livestream or Media Library (VOD) is not working properly. Therefore please use the list below and review your website to prepare for going live.
Please make sure that you have licensing or rights for the images which appear on your Hope Channel website. The example content images and images used for training are not owned by Stimme der Hoffnung and should not be displayed on the website. Use the image file metadata field "Title" to provide information about the rights for using the image. The following resources can be used to obtain free images for your website. Please review the licensing on each website below:
Review all of the text elements which appear on your Hope Channel website. For example, check that the Copyright, address, etc. are correct for your Hope Channel website. If original example content, like the Contact page, will continue to be used, review the text. This really goes without needing to be said, but is given here as a reminder.
The website should display only active pages with real content. However be careful deleting pages on the website. If you are not sure what the page does and it was created during the installation process, it is probably better to disable the page, rather than delete it! That said, please review the following points:
Please review all of the translation work done for your website. Make sure that a member of your team has created an account on the Translation Server and that all of the TYPO3 extensions have been properly translated. Review the Translation page under the Document webpage on this support website for all items which should be reviewed in regards to translation.
The website has search functionality powered by the Apache Solr search engine. Once the page content has been correctly populated, test searches should be executed on a sample of example keywords. The keywords will vary per site, so we cannot provide a list which will cover all posible websites. Please verify:
Please review all navigation links on the website.
If your Hope Channel website has a Livestream and schedule:
If your Hope Channel website has a Media Library, please verify:
Please review the information on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in regards to your website.
When you have your Domain Name hosted on a different ISP, you will need to make an update when the website is ready to go-live.
In this case, you setup the name server and create an A record for the DNS pointing to the IP 138.124.148.133. This change can take 24 hours to happen.
Additionally, if the provider is using any aliases, these aliases need to point to the same IP. Example: www.hopechannelexample.org or hopechannelexample.org both need to point to 138.124.148.133 IP address.