History — Linc-Website

Chronological narrative of work in this repo / on linc.co.za. Most recent themes first.

Audit-questions documentation update (cloud/SaaS-first rewrite)

  • The Business Central security audit questions document (audit-questions.md, which builds to audit-questions.html) was rewritten to reflect Linc’s current hosting reality: Linc no longer offers its own hosted environment; the vast majority of clients are on Microsoft’s Business Central SaaS cloud, with only a small handful privately hosted.
  • Changes applied: copyright year updated to 2026; the three-column hosting model (Cloud / Linc Hosted / Private) collapsed to two columns (Cloud as the default first, On-premises / Privately Hosted as secondary); the Linc-hosted section and the Excel download link were removed entirely; “Azure AD” / “Office365” terminology replaced with “Entra ID (Microsoft 365)” throughout; the password-settings row changed so the Cloud answer defers to the client’s Entra ID tenant policy; the Backup Management “Cloud” answer expanded with current Microsoft specifics (28-day retention, point-in-time restore, 14-day deleted-environment recovery window, geo-redundant backups, 99.9% SLA) plus a second reference link to the admin center backup/restore docs.
  • Referenced Microsoft Learn documentation links were verified as still valid.

Homepage / brand redesign exploration

  • A visual redesign exploration of the linc.co.za homepage was done, with the existing Linc logo and its palette as the strict design bible and an enterprise-trustworthy / Microsoft-aligned brand feel. The homepage was treated as the anchor asset for a broader design system (also intended to inform letterhead and proposal templates).
  • The canonical palette was extracted directly from the logo and site CSS: primary cyan #009bc2, logo highlight #00aeef, deep cyan #067b9e, muted steel-cyan #69b0c6, and a whisper-level gold accent #c49a6c.
  • A working HTML homepage mockup was produced (Sora + Inter typefaces, dark ink hero, a “connective rail” motif derived from the logo’s bar geometry, services/solutions/metrics/CTA structure), with screenshots rendered for visual self-review.
  • Key correction: the first pass wrongly pulled colours/framing from the sub-brands (ProduceLinc, WineLinc, CommLinc). It was normalised back to the four canonical linc.co.za cyans, gold demoted to a single hairline accent, the sub-brand-specific hero replaced with a neutral Implement → Extend → Support panel, and per-app accent colours stripped from the solutions grid so all cards use a single brand cyan.
  • suggested: This was an exploration; it is not clear how much (if any) landed in the committed index.html.

Analytics / tracking audit

  • The tracking setup across linc.co.za and producelinc.io was audited. At the time, both sites had only a LinkedIn Insight Tag (linc.co.za partner ID 6706090) and no Google Analytics deployed — GA4 properties existed in Google’s console (“Linc - GA4” G-E7E2CPRBN9 / GT-5MRP9PB; “ProduceLinc - GA4” G-X821NVPRC3 / GT-NCLZGPM) but the gtag snippets had never been added to the pages (or were lost in a rebuild). A colleague, Caileen, was identified as the likely person who originally set up the LinkedIn tag and the GA4 properties.
  • Ready-to-paste gtag snippets were provided. Current state of the repo: the GA4 snippet for G-E7E2CPRBN9 is now present at the top of _includes/linc_head.html, so GA is deployed site-wide — the gap identified in that audit has since been closed.