Category: www.franciscomat.com

In every Fnetwork site you can see a bar in the bottom, it has links to the main projects, and as the network grown, new links was updated. I never had comfortable time to work and with that bar was not different.

The idea arrived to get consistency to network, and make users navigate more well between all projects. Besides that, the linkage also could help get better position in search result engines.

One advantage is that we can check the whole network visits by checking the number of times that plugin bar displays. And also, in the right corner we show current user location.

But the design and appearance was not good, and even the position at the bottom make many users not saw it. So I am almost finishing the new design, the bar will go to the top, what made the original name change, now is only F5 Sites Bar. The design also changed a bit, many improvements was made and we are waiting another plugin of the network to be ready, F5 Sites Smart Language Filter.

When these twos plugins be ready, the Fnetwork will get to a new level. But it will take a time, many changes is being made in the background, the focus will be just one: get new costumers.

Since our 2016 plan, I changed F5 Sites focus to a more global position, making efforts to exit Brazil and go to a country like USA. The path I figured out to reach was simple, I started by translate all content of the site (posts, menus) to English, make a USA section in the site and then delivered content especially made to that target.

For site banner I choosed images like California, Chinese traffic jam, everything was more global and ready to get clients from anywhere in the World.

But the internationalization never ended-up, F5 Sites was just translated and never finished the whole process. It is not just translate, make the site beautiful, change images and wait for new lead and costumers to contact. It was necessary to get to the clients, to start conversation, make jobs proposal, and that’s when things got difficulty.

I personally think I can make dozen of leads and reach new clients in a face-to-face talk, even knowing that is possible and usual to get clients only via internet, it is easier for me to get touch in meetings, events, lectures, workshops, make active visits and explore my personal network to reach new clients. So, while I am still in Brazil, my plan has to shift, need to allocate efforts to get new clients here.

If you are in Sao Paulo, SP, contact us right now to schedule a meeting.

After tons of tests and experiences, with the most famous and updated language plugins for WordPress, I started one plugin for F5 Sites e Fnetwork. Based in a simple but efficient code I made for a project theme (Sistema Focalizador Javascript).All I had to do is to use tags in posts, like:

• lang-en: english
• lang-pt: portugues
• lang-fr: french
• lang-zn: chinese
• And so on…

The “Smart” term in the name is because it use an algorythym based on WooCommerce Geocode and HTTP function to determine users location and provice the probably most correct language. So we will close our domains that start with br, like br.f5sites.com and br.franciscomat.com, because whenever location you are, the main domain will provide you content in your language.

The plugin will be present in all network, it will be attached to another plugin we use F5 Sites Footer Bar, so all sites will have translate options. The users will also have the option to change language anytime, and if it come in a link that does not have the language users spoke, a warn will be attached to change language anytime.

The plugin is under development and has no deadline to be finished, it is an effort I making to achieve best results in marketing and getting new clients.