Documentation Portal Announcements

As part of our ongoing documentation portal redesign, we have significantly enhanced its layout, appearance, and navigation to provide an unmatched user experience and improved visibility of our products and product categories. Consequently, you will observe changes in the product listing on the vertical navigation bar on the left side of this page.

We aim to improve the visibility of our functional products and make documentation easily discoverable. Our team has worked diligently to ensure these modifications align with the best practices in documentation portal design and user experience. The result is a documentation portal that offers our users a streamlined and efficient browsing experience.

Note: The functionality of the products and their associated features remain unaffected.

What's changing?

Across the documentation portal:

• The new look and feel of the document, with refreshing color and font style changes, make the content visually appealing.

• Appealing banners differentiate between different documentation sections, such as User Guides, Developer Reference, Support, and FAQs.

• A new Log in tab on the horizontal navigation bar redirects to the DCD log in page.

• APIs, SDKs & Tools tab on the horizontal navigation bar have been renamed to Developer Reference.

On the landing page:

• Well-categorized and comprehensive sections for IONOS Cloud products and services: Getting Started, Developer Reference, Product User Guides, and Security.

• Card-based layouts for products:

  • Bite-sized snippets of information provide an overview of the product.

  • Clickable cards swiftly redirect to the landing page of the respective product documentation.

• Product Categories and Products:

  • Listed in an alphabetical order on the landing page and on the vertical navigation bar on the left side of this page.

  • To ensure sync with the newly designed product catalog on the IONOS website, specific:

    • Products have either moved to an existing product category or placed under a newly added product category.

    • Product names have changed.

On the vertical navigation bar:

The product and product categories precisely match the order displayed on the landing page, and they are perfectly synchronized with the product catalog available on the IONOS website.

Who’s impacted, and what about availability?

End users can view upgrades via the accessible public documentation portal.

What changed in the product categories?

The changes include the following:

Effective changes to product categories:

List of products with new names:

Product recategorization:

We are publishing changes in phases on the documentation portal, which means that it is constantly evolving. However, the product's functionality and features remain unaffected. We will keep you updated about all changes here.