Branding Considerations

As mentioned earlier, this is a business-oriented portal. Although content and name recognition are important, they are secondary to the primary goal of enabling end users to perform their work in a more efficient manner. Thus, any branding should be subtle and never detract from the pagelet content or the rest of the portal.

Thus, for a user to operate within the PeopleSoft Interaction Hub product, a pagelet developed outside of PeopleSoft can credit the source developer, but must follow these standards:

  • Branding on a homepage pagelet should be done by means of text only and should be placed at the bottom of the pagelet. No organization logos can be placed on the pagelet without permission from Oracle. You can use “Provided by XXX,” where XXX is the name of your company. Also, XXX can be a link to an appropriate web page.

  • Organization logos and further information about your organization, products, and services should be located on the pagelet personalization page or other pagelet extensions.

  • Generally, graphics for organization logos should not be larger than 100 pixels wide x 40 pixels high.

If you wanted to create a pagelet that an associate could use to search for keywords on another website, it might look like the following example.

Sample Pagelet

The HTML used is shown here:

<table border=0 cellspacing=1 cellpadding=0>
		<tr>
			<td><!-- start of search form -->
				<form method="POST" action="http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/dofind.cgi">
					<center>
					<font class="PSEDITBOXLABEL">Enter keyword:</font>
					<input name="word" value="">
					<br>
					<input type="submit" value="Search"></center>
				</form>
<!-- end of search form --></td>
</tr>

<tr>
		<td><!-- start of optional directions -->
			<font class="PAADDITIONALINSTRUCTIONS">General directions can be provided here. 
				Remember that pagelets should be as easy and intuitive to use 
				as possible.<br>
				<br>
			</font>
<!-- end of optional directions --></td>
</tr>

<tr>
		<td><!-- start of footer for branding -->
			<center>
			<font class="PSPSMALLTEXT">Provided by 
				<a href="http://www.example.com/">Content Source Company</a>
			</font>
			</center>
<!-- end of footer for branding --></td>
</tr>
</table>

Note how this sample pagelet adheres to the standards mentioned previously:

  • It uses a table to help wrap words, rather than allowing long strings to dictate the width of the pagelet.

  • All text uses the PeopleSoft styles, such as PSEDITBOXLABEL, PAADDITIONALINSTRUCTIONS, and PSPSMALLTEXT.

  • The branding is small and no graphics are used, thus adhering to the branding standards mentioned previously.