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Colors and Layouts

Customization of the layout of your public site runs through SparqFest site themes. A site theme defines the layout of your public site and your general ability to control the look and feel through custom colors and fonts. Unless the theme documentation says otherwise, each theme will support all SparqFest functionality. The theme simply governs how...

Last updated: December 9th, 2022

Languages and Localization

Your festival web site can be localized to one or more languages that SparqFest supports as well as except user-generated content in any language, including dead languages and constructed languages. We also do automatic machine translations any time you enter text content and give you the option of reviewing and altering those translations. Site Con...

Last updated: December 9th, 2022

Custom Pages and Navigation

Note: the features in this article are new as of December 9, 2022. Our goal with this feature is to enable you to replace your www site. Please let us know if this functionality is falling short of that objective for your site needs. We will work to address those concerns in a future release. Out of the box, SparqFest will create a dynamic web site ...

Last updated: December 14th, 2022

Customizing Site Content

SparqFest stores all site content in a “dictionary” that maps placeholders in our site templates to translations in our supported languages (the article Languages and Localization discusses language support in detail). We allow you to customize any text by editing this dictionary. Leveraging this customization feature, you can alter SparqFest termin...

Last updated: December 9th, 2022

Email Management

SparqFest sends out a number of transactional emails to you, your staff, jurors, creators, and audience members. Depending on the type of message being sent and the context, you may have a significant level of control over how the email looks. Types of Emails We break emails down into four categories: Account emails Alerts Reports Emails on your beh...

Last updated: February 7th, 2023

Receipts

Receipts and invitations are the two most “brand-sensitive” emails that SparqFest sends on your behalf. While you can control the bulk of your invitations simply by editing the invitation template in the Email Templates subsection ("Settings" > “Email Templates”), SparqFest supports the customization only of a short message via email templates. I...

Last updated: February 3rd, 2023

Custom Domains

We create new public sites with the URL https://[yourfestival].sparqfest.live where [yourfestival] is the name or abbreviation for your festival. For most festivals, the SparqFest URL does not matter. They have a www site , drive all traffic to it, and simply link over to the online site. Audience members never see the SparqFest URL except in the ad...

Last updated: November 1st, 2022

Site Themes

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