Today 4:03 PM
Got it fixed. On to the Catalog again. I have a weird question....I've been using PowerPoint for about 25 years and this is the FIRST time I'm unable to find Margins (where I can set them) because the PPT Catalog doesn't have much space at the top. I could ask you to fix it but I thought I could fix it easily in PowerPoint.
This is what the slide master looks like
But THIS is the top Master format. Perhaps it's easier once I insert some additional slides (Erin created in Canva) and then have YOU go through and clean up layout, look for grammar, broken links, etc.
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Ok. So here is a PDF of the final deck. Here's where I need your help:
Yes — I think we have the final production version now. I used the catalog you uploaded as the source.
Final files
Download the final polished PowerPoint
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What I changed and checked
Applied a consistent global inset/margin so the pages have more breathing room.
Added a hyperlinked Table of Contents immediately after the cover.
Added three branded section dividers:
Institution-Wide Membership
Professional Certifications
Live Webinars
The Webinars divider now introduces both the webinar overview and the complete event catalog.
Added Back to Contents navigation to the divider pages.
Added PDF bookmarks for the major sections.
Updated page numbering for the new 52-page structure.
Fixed the truncated callout on the Why FI Learning Group page.
Fixed the broken/wrapped service@filearninggroup.com display on Contact Us.
Standardized 3-Part Stablecoin Bootcamp and cleaned up its truncated descriptions.
Corrected several obviously mismatched webinar descriptions, including Negative News Research, wire-transfer programs, Treasury Management Payment Agreements, External A2A Fraud, and Frontline Fraud Defense.
Added the previously missing hyperlink to the Upcoming Webinars button.
Found one particularly sneaky link problem: the August 23, 2027 Fast, Compliant Account Opening registration was pointing to the generic LearnWorlds Webinars page in both the index and detailed catalog. I replaced both with the correct Stripe registration link.
Hyperlink audit
This came out very clean:
211 event registration links in the At-a-Glance Index
211 corresponding registration links in the Detailed Catalog
The two sequences match exactly.
The final PDF contains 218 unique external URLs, and the erroneous generic LearnWorlds event link is gone. TOC and section-navigation links are also active.
I rendered the finished 52-page PDF and PowerPoint page-by-page for visual QA, and the PowerPoint overflow test passed with no slide content outside the page boundaries.
One thing to know about the PowerPoint: because you gave me the finished PDF rather than the .pptx, the 48 original catalog pages are flattened in the PowerPoint. The new navigation is active, but editing individual text boxes on the original pages would require your original PPTX. The PDF is the highest-quality final publishing version and retains searchable/vector content and live links.
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Here is the original PPT. Does that help?
You were right — the Meet the Founders page had been scaled down more than it should have been when I applied the global inset.
I corrected it by restoring that page to its original larger scale and added live LinkedIn buttons for:
Erin → linkedin.com/in/erinhandel/
Michael → linkedin.com/in/beird
I also verified that both LinkedIn links are active in the PDF, and the PowerPoint still passes the slide-boundary/overflow check.
Download the corrected PowerPoint
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The founder section is noticeably easier to read now and feels much closer to the scale Erin originally designed.
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Done — I rebuilt this from the editable original PowerPoint and did the full second-pass QA.
I specifically corrected the issues you flagged:
TOC orange-box numbers are now truly centered vertically and horizontally.
All 8 TOC entries are live internal hyperlinks in the PowerPoint and PDF.
The Membership, Certifications, and Webinars divider pages each have a working Back to Table of Contents link.
Rechecked all 52 pages visually after rendering.
Ran the PowerPoint overflow test: no objects outside slide boundaries.
Reviewed text/graphics for clipping, awkward positioning, container overflow, and alignment.
Kept the founder page at its larger scale and moved the LinkedIn buttons to the bottom of each founder profile.
Fixed the Contact Us page so the email address no longer wraps awkwardly.
Rechecked the registration links:
211 links in the At-a-Glance Index
211 links in the Detailed Catalog
The two sequences now match exactly
All 211 point to Stripe payment URLs
The previously incorrect Fast, Compliant Account Opening link is corrected.
Rechecked the other external links: LinkedIn, Calendly, email and telephone links.
Cleaned the previously identified content mismatches, Stablecoin Bootcamp formatting, and other obvious text problems.
Added PDF bookmarks for the major catalog sections.
The underlying catalog remains based on the material in your original editable deck.
Final files
Download the FINAL editable PowerPoint
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I’d use these two as the new master files and retire the earlier “Polished” versions.
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Done. I made only the surgical changes you requested and then rechecked the deck so the event content itself stayed untouched.
I corrected the month-banner spacing on:
p. 27 — February 2027
p. 36 — June 2027
p. 38 — July 2027
p. 47 — November 2027
p. 49 — December 2027 — this is the page containing the November 30 webinar in the final pagination.
I also added this centered copyright footer throughout:
© 2026–Present, FI Learning Group, All Rights Reserved.
Final QA confirmed:
all 52 pages remain within the page boundaries;
event text is unchanged;
existing external hyperlink targets are unchanged;
all 8 Table of Contents links work;
all 3 Back to Table of Contents links work;
LinkedIn, Stripe, Calendly and other external links remain intact;
PDF bookmarks are preserved.
Final v2 files
Download the final editable PowerPoint
Download the final PDF
I’d treat these two as the master versions now.
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Yes — I would absolutely deploy it as a flagship sales/marketing asset, not just treat it as a file people happen to stumble across.
The key is this: the website should be the destination; the PDF should be the takeaway. I would not make the Catalog menu item open the PDF directly. You lose SEO, context, and the opportunity to send people into Webinars, Certifications, or Membership.
Here’s the structure I’d use:
Main navigation → Catalog should go to filearninggroup.com/catalog
That page should open with something like “2026–2027 Education & Training Catalog”, a short description, and a large View / Download the Catalog button very high on the page.
Immediately below that, give people three paths: Browse Webinars | Explore Certifications | Institution-Wide Membership
Show a nice image of the catalog cover beside the download CTA so it feels like a substantial publication, not just a random PDF attachment.
Then include a short HTML summary of what’s inside: 200+ scheduled events, six professional certifications, institution-wide membership, practical learning resources, etc. That gives Google actual indexable content.
Optionally embed the PDF farther down the page for people who want to flip through it without downloading.
Where else I would surface it
Homepage: Yes. I would add a relatively prominent section, probably after the primary training/product overview:
Plan Your Training Through 2027
Explore more than 200 scheduled webinars, six professional certifications, and institution-wide training options in the FI Learning Group Education & Training Catalog.
View the 2026–2027 Catalog →
I wouldn't put it above your primary Webinars/Certifications/Membership message, but it should absolutely be on the homepage.
Webinars page: Very natural fit. Somewhere near Upcoming Webinars, add a small secondary CTA:
Want to plan farther ahead? Download the complete 2026–2027 Education & Training Catalog.
Certifications page: Smaller callout near the bottom. The catalog gives someone who came for a certification a reason to discover the broader offering.
Membership page: I would definitely include it. In fact, the catalog is one of your strongest membership-selling tools because a training manager can physically see just how much $2,495 buys.
Inside the PDF itself
I would not add a “Download this PDF” link inside the PDF. 😄 By definition, they've already got it.
But I would consider one tiny addition on the cover or TOC page:
For the latest schedule, newly added programs and registration availability, visit filearninggroup.com/catalog
That solves a bigger issue. This catalog covers through December 2027, so copies are going to get emailed around and live on people's desktops for a long time. If a webinar date changes or you add 50 more programs, an old PDF can never update itself.
So the PDF should point back to the canonical live Catalog page, where the newest PDF is always available.
That gives you a very nice ecosystem:
Google / LinkedIn / email → Catalog landing page → PDF → individual registration links → Stripe
…and:
Old PDF somebody forwarded six months later → “latest catalog” link → current Catalog page → newest PDF
I would also rename the public PDF
Instead of the long working filename we have now, publish it as something clean like:
FI-Learning-Group-2026-2027-Education-Training-Catalog.pdf
That looks much better in downloads, browser tabs, forwarded emails and search results.
And the website button should say “Download the 2026–2027 Catalog”, not “Download PDF.” Sell the thing, not the file format.
One other idea I like a lot for you: use the catalog as a LinkedIn/email lead magnet without actually gating it. I wouldn't make someone surrender an email address just to download it. You've already built a catalog containing 211 opportunities for someone to spend money with you. The least friction possible is the right move.
So my recommendation is:
Catalog gets its own SEO landing page, PDF download is prominent near the top, homepage promotes it, Webinars/Membership cross-link to it, and the PDF itself points back to /catalog for the latest version.
That would make the work we just put into this thing earn its keep. 😄
So can you create those pages and walk me through how/where to deploy it? I like your ideas but I'm exhausted, caught COVID over the weekend and really REALLY need the assist! :-)
Absolutely. I’ve done the website work so this can be mostly copy, paste, upload, publish rather than another design project.
I also made one strategic choice: on the website I use “200+ scheduled events” instead of hard-coding “211.” Your current catalog does contain 211 scheduled events, but “200+” won’t become wrong the moment you add or remove an event. The six certification paths remain explicit.
I created everything
Download the complete web deployment package
Public-facing clean catalog PDF
Catalog page — Hero HTML
Catalog page — Body HTML
Homepage with Catalog promotion added
Webinars page with Catalog promotion added
Certifications page with Catalog promotion added
Membership page with Catalog promotion added
Deployment instructions
The ZIP contains all of those plus a web-ready catalog cover graphic.
Do this first: create the Catalog page
In LearnWorlds:
Website → Design → Edit Website → Pages → +
Create a blank public page:
Page name: Catalog
URL: /catalog
For the page itself, I recommend using three sections rather than trying to make the PDF URL work inside custom HTML.
First, add your usual Embed/HTML section and paste the contents of:
FI_Learning_Group_Catalog_Hero.html
That gives you the large branded Catalog introduction, faux catalog cover, messaging and links.
Immediately below it, add:
+ Add Widget → Download File
Upload this exact file:
FI-Learning-Group-2026-2027-Education-Training-Catalog.pdf
Set the button text to:
Download the 2026–2027 Catalog
I would make that button gold #FFB400 with navy #002B6B text, centered and fairly prominent.
This is the cleanest method because LearnWorlds has a native Download File widget specifically for PDFs and downloadable documents. Their current documentation says files up to 20 MB are supported; ours is only about 5.5 MB, so we're comfortably within the limit.
Then add another Embed/HTML section directly underneath and paste:
FI_Learning_Group_Catalog_Body.html
That completes the page.
What the Catalog page now does
The page sells the catalog rather than merely dumping a PDF on somebody. It explains what it contains, shows the scale of the offering, and routes visitors into:
Webinars → /webinars
Certifications → /certifications
Membership → /membership
The PDF becomes the downloadable planning document; the website remains the current source for dates, availability and registration.
That is exactly the relationship I want between the two.
Catalog SEO
Go into Page SEO for /catalog and enter:
SEO Title
2026–2027 Banking Training Catalog | FI Learning Group
SEO Description
Explore 200+ banking webinars, six professional certifications, and institution-wide training for banks and credit unions in the FI Learning Group 2026–2027 catalog.
Optional Keywords
banking training catalog, bank webinars, credit union training, banking certifications, financial institution training, compliance training, payments training, treasury management training
Exclude from sitemap: OFF
And make sure the page is public.
LearnWorlds' current page creation path is indeed Website → Design → Edit Website → Pages → +, so we're aligned with the current builder rather than an old interface.
Then update the four existing pages
I've already done the HTML work.
For each page, use Pages Manager → find the exact URL → pencil/Edit HTML, just as we've been doing, and replace the current HTML with its new version:
Home → FI_Learning_Group_Homepage_With_Catalog.html
I added a fairly substantial “Your training plan through 2027, in one place” section shortly before the final Membership CTA.
Webinars → FI_Learning_Group_Webinars_With_Catalog.html
I added “See the complete 2026–2027 training calendar” immediately after the upcoming webinar/calendar area.
Certifications → FI_Learning_Group_Certifications_With_Catalog.html
I added a smaller Catalog cross-sell near the bottom, because somebody considering a credential may want to see everything else you offer.
Membership → FI_Learning_Group_Membership_With_Catalog.html
This one gets a stronger Catalog callout because I think the catalog is a particularly powerful membership sales tool: it makes the volume of available training tangible.
About Us does not need another Catalog callout. We don't need to put the poor catalog on every available square inch of the website. 😄
One navigation check
Your public Before Sign-in/Sign-up menu already has Catalog.
Just click the pencil next to Catalog and make sure it is:
On click → Go to → Page → Catalog → Same window
LearnWorlds supports direct page-to-page navigation this way.
Finally: Google
Once you've published /catalog, open an Incognito window and test:
https://filearninggroup.com/catalog
Check the download button once.
Then:
Google Search Console → URL Inspection
Enter:
https://filearninggroup.com/catalog
Then:
Test Live URL → Request Indexing
That's it.
One thing I would save for the very end
I still like adding a tiny line inside the PDF itself saying:
For the latest schedule and newest catalog version, visit filearninggroup.com/catalog
But I would publish /catalog first. Once we know it is live and working, I can make that one final tiny modification to the PowerPoint/PDF so every copy that gets forwarded around for the next 16 months has a permanent path back to the live site.
So for now, you only need to concentrate on one thing: build /catalog using Hero → Download File widget → Body. Everything else is already prepared.
2026–2027 Education & Training Catalog
Plan your banking training through 2027.
Explore more than 200 scheduled banking webinars, six professional certification paths, practical learning resources, and institution-wide training options built for banks and credit unions.
FIFI LEARNING GROUP
Education & Training
2026–2027 Catalog
Practical webinars, certifications, and institution-wide training for financial institution professionals.
SEPTEMBER 2026 – DECEMBER 2027
Download the complete catalog below.52 pages • searchable PDF • active registration links • 5.5 MB
What’s Inside
A practical training roadmap for the whole institution.
The catalog brings FI Learning Group’s scheduled education into one place so training leaders and individual professionals can plan ahead without sorting through hundreds of separate listings.
200+scheduled webinar events
6professional certification paths
$2,495institution-wide annual membership
Choose Your Path
Use the catalog—or go straight to what you need.
The PDF is ideal for planning and sharing internally. The live website remains the best place for current availability, full program details, and registration.
Live & On Demand
Banking Webinars
Browse upcoming programs across compliance, fraud, payments, Treasury Management, lending, operations, risk, audit and emerging financial services.
Browse Webinars
Professional Credentials
Certifications
Explore focused programs for Treasury, fraud, risk, payments, Regulation E and compliance professionals.
Explore Certifications
Best Value
Institution-Wide Membership
Give your entire bank or credit union access to FI Learning Group webinars and certifications for one simple annual price.
Explore Membership
Built to Be Useful
Keep the PDF. Use the website for the latest details.
Schedules evolve. New programs are added. Registration availability changes. The catalog is designed to be a convenient planning document while the FI Learning Group website remains the current source for program information.
- Use the clickable Table of Contents to jump directly to major catalog sections.
- Use the active Register Now links throughout the PDF to move directly into registration.
- Share the PDF internally with managers, HR, Learning & Development, compliance and department leaders.
- Return to this page whenever you want the newest available catalog version.
Ready to build your training plan?
Browse the live schedule now, or explore institution-wide access for your entire team.
View Upcoming Webinars