Training: Live Sessions

Style Guide

Live Sessions

Session 1. December 1, 2023. [1 hour: 13 minutes] Watch Recording Sitefinity Training Video #1

Intro - will share the links to get into new Sitefinity as well as style guide, backend credentials per instructions from primary contact(s) for Results Direct.
Review interface. Display of 'Pages' (more actions vs three dots). Reorder pages in the navigation. Excellent HTML view.
Use of build best practices: add lists of content types to landing pages and use the content detail templates.
Show the Style-Guide

Managing the new website

Overview of Content > News, Events, etc.
Discuss each content type, details of some.
How to use 'Title & Properties' to set the correct parent page (changing the navigation) and if desired: edit the title and URL.
Intro to creating a new page, choosing a template.
Editing Pages. Overview of Widgets: Content block, Images, cards, Custom Content. See Layout options. (We'll do more advanced 'custom content' and Layout options in session 2)
Add a list of content
Editing content in Content Blocks.
--- Add a section header and apply a Heading 2 style using the Format drop down.
--- Apply bullets to a list - makes the content more readable
--- Add a link to an external website and set the link to open in a new page.
--- Add a link to an internal page. And style the links as a button using the Format drop down.
--- Add a link to a document
--- Insert an image and style it with Image Left or Image Right using the Format drop down
Q&A

Homework: Watch these videos AFTER participating in/viewing session above:

[14:48 minutes] A full overview of working with content items
[11:22 minutes] Manage Files and Images
[13:06] Use the formatting bar, aka as the WYSIWYG, to apply styles
[11:08] Create a page
[9:31] Change the Website Navigation
[6:14] Improve the Page Layout by Adding Columns

Session 2 - Conferences. December 20, 2023. [1 hour: 31 minutes] Watch Recording Sitefinity Training Video #2

Session 3 - Conferences, con't. December 26, 2023 [59 minutes] Watch Recording Sitefinity Training Video #3

Session 4 - CEBS. December 26, 2023 [1 hour: 28 minutes] Watch Recording Sitefinity Training Video #4

Prod URLs, Relative URLs, and Absolute URLs

Very Important: Use Relative URLs for links to content on your website.

A Relative URL begins with the forward slash after your domain.
An Absolute URL includes the https://domain.org

Example: For a link going to a page: https://www.resultsdirect.com/success-story/auto-care-website-success-story

use: /success-story/auto-care-website-success-story

This is especially important while your website is still in pre-production and the Absolute URL includes 'prod', something like https://prod-resultsdirect.com

What happens if I use 'Prod' in my URLs?

It is possible that those links will be broken. As part of the Launch Process, Results Direct uses 'search and replace' to find instances of Absolute URLs and replaces the link code with Relative URLs. BUT the search and replace cannot search in certain areas: URL fields in your content items, style sheets, and code in page templates. It is very important for your links to be relative.