August 2015 Release Details

Subscribers to Vizlly DMS and DMS+

Publisher: Web Marketing

Vizlly Websites now offer the ability to customize the website theme to align with your property's unique branding. Make your property's website stand out from the competition and set the mood for travel shoppers by updating the theme's colors, fonts and display options. Vizlly’s advanced Customization Tool automatically selects appropriate font colors when page background colors are chosen. Choose font pairings to make SEO content stand out. Take full control over all colors by clicking on the expand icon in the Fonts header to open the font colors and font lists to choose specific colors and fonts. Preview changes live to the right of the customization panel and save when satisfied. Customization is available to all properties using an independent website theme. 

Granville and Bellwood Customization Options:

• Colors on the web page
• Font colors
• Font types
• Page header backgrounds or color
• Show/Hide Property Name in navigation
• Show/Hide Property Location in navigation
• Show/Hide Homepage Button in navigation
• Show/Hide Social Icons

Showcase, Classic, Center Classic and Folio Customization Options:

• Show/Hide Property Name in navigation
• Show/Hide Property Location in navigation
• Show/Hide Homepage Button in navigation
• Show/Hide Social Icons

To access the Customization Tool, go to Website Settings and hover over Website Theme and click on Customize Theme. Click the edit icon when hovering to change the website theme.

SEO Enhancements

When moving an existing property website to Vizlly, preserve the search engine ranking by using Page Redirects. Page Redirects, also known as 301 Redirects, help to maintain existing links in search engines, blogs, etc. and redirect travel shoppers and search engines to the appropriate page on the new Vizlly website. Page Redirects also inform search engines to update old page links to the new Vizlly website links for future shoppers.

To create Page Redirects, go to Website Settings and click the edit icon to add as many redirects as needed.

Vizlly websites now include a robots.txt file to give instructions to search engines to not skip any pages of the website. A link to the website’s XML Sitemap is also included to ensure all pages of the website are successfully added to the search engine.

Bug Fixes

• Room Type Items created without a description could result in the Room Story not displaying correctly on the Website, Web Widgets and Facebook Apps. This has been fixed
• Website URLs with “/” at the end did not produce a 404 page on the Vizlly Website. This has been corrected to show the 404 page
• The Pinterest icon in the Share link on the Smartphone Optimized Website overlapped the Pinterest text. This has been fixed to look like all other share network icons.