
5 Small, Yet Very Essential, Content Tips & Tricks
#1 – The “Normal” Formatting Option Is Your Best Friend

When working within Sitefinity, you’ll be spending a lot of time in the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor. One thing that isn’t clear is the “Normal” option under the formatting dropdown inserts a paragraph tag. This is extremely essential in keeping bodies of text uniformly spaced out. All you need to do is select the body of text, click the dropdown that says “normal” and then click “normal” again. This is much better than a hard enter, meaning hitting “Enter” for a line break, as paragraphs usually have styles applied to them that creates a specific margin where hard enters do not. This can also be used for images or any other content on your site to enable a bottom margin, and it’s even more important for mobile for when things stack on top of each other.
#2 – Compress Images (If Possible)

#3 – Find Out Where Your Content Type Is
Ever forget where your news, blog, or event lists are? Well, the good news is you can easily locate where all of those lists live! In order to see which pages use that content, click on the particular content in the backend and once you’re in, let’s say “News” for example, you’ll see a gray column on the right side. Under the heading: “Settings for news,” you can click on the link: “Pages where News are published.” That will list the pages that use the news widget.
You’ll also notice that each page has a priority set to it. The page with the highest priority will be the page all search items will be directed to if the search includes that content type in the results.
#4 – Make Your Youtube/Vimeo Videos Respond to Any Device
Video embed codes are easier than ever to add, but getting them to size is still an issue most content editors face. To remedy this, your site will come with a special CSS class to put on the content block that contains to video in order to scale proportionally. In most cases the class will be “videoWrap.” Doing so will always make the video resize no matter the device resolution. Please reach out to Vanguard if you do not have that class/functionality available.
#5 – Use Page Properties to Limit Search Engine Exposure

The next time you are creating or managing website content in your Sitefinity CMS, try these out! If you’re interested in learning more content tips and tricks in Sitefinity or have questions regarding these five essential tips, contact your Vanguard Client Manager today.