ACS-Embrace develops and shares a free “Copy” and “Paste” website link to help South African SMEs comply with Covid-19 website regulations.
Proudly South African company, ACS-Embrace has developed a free, accessible responsive banner, enabling users to add the Covid-19 portal to their landing pages.
This comes in response to new government regulations, published 26 March, requiring that all South African website owners include a link to the Department of Health’s Covid-19 portal on their landing page. (More information about this can be found here: Regulation No. 43164, also here: https://www.registry.net.za)
All .za domains are required to have a landing page/home page with a visible link to www.sacoronavirus.co.za. This link directs users to The Department of Health website which contains all critical and accurate information about the Covid-19 outbreak, statistics on its spread in South Africa and associated government press releases.
With over 1 million registered domain names, ".za" is trusted, proudly South African and the largest domain namespace in Africa and are used to power hundreds of thousands of active websites. Many of these are owned by small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
ACS-Embrace developed this banner to
- Help website owners to easily meet this requirement. These are tough times for several small business owners. Many may not even be aware of this requirement while others are, for now, ignoring it as they are dealing with much bigger issues in their daily operations.
The nationwide lock-down means that many companies are currently closed and employees are working remotely, if at all, making it difficult to make these necessary changes to their website. Some may even need to contract developers to assist in meeting this regulation, which could incur additional costs, especially at such short notice. ACS-Embrace are offering a simple, easily accessible banner to help them meet this requirement.
- Spread and reinforce the COVID-19 message. We are all in this together and ACS-Embrace is doing their part to help ensure that public knowledge about the pandemic is shared and communicated, accurately, across all platforms.
There are far too many people breaking the lock-down rules and this second week, we’ve been advised, is the most critical, in terms of staying at home and practising social distancing. There is so much hype and fake news out there, and this makes it imperative that accurate and reliable information is spread, especially online.
The link is available, free and easy to install – a simple “Copy” & “Paste”:
https://embrace.co.za/sacoronavirus-link
To date, more than 100 South African sites have added this banner to their site. Do your part to help spread the message and not the virus. Stay at home. Practice social distancing and together we will flatten the curve.