Video 1: [7:22 minutes] Login, Sitefinity Licenses, and Navigating in the CMS Sitefinity

Video 2: [5:49 minutes] Content Re-usability. See examples of how a content item is entered once, and is displayed on several lists: Events are shown on the homepage, Events list, and on the Volunteer page. News items are shown on separate audience lists. Enter a news story and add categories.
See the admin area of Sitefinity to create a content item by entering the information to fields and adding a category of 'volunteer'. See how the item now shows on the homepage, events list, and volunteer page.

Video 3: [9:25 minutes] Pages vs Content items. Pages differ from Content Types in these main ways:
A. Choosing where information shows: Pages are added to specific areas in the navigation. And although Lists of content items are added to specific pages, the individual content items are listed on pages (not listed in navigation).
B. How information is entered and how information is displayed. Pages have much flexibility. See the editing of a page and changing the layout to include 3 columns. See the different widgets available for page builds. But Content items are stamped into their templates to give a uniform display. See examples of those different display templates. See the editing of a content item's fields.

Video 4: [14:48] Overview of Content Items. Learn how to work with content items, and learn about the different types of fields you might encounter as you add or edit content items.

October 12, 2021

Topics covered

(the times are estimates)

[5 mins] “Job Postings”. RSS feed from careers.aspet.org. If the URL changed, edit Template “ASPET Interior”

[10 mins] the icon bar at the top of the website. Design > Page Templates. Template “ASPET Base”. Find and edit the Content block holding the images, text, and destinations. Warning! – editing templates will affect the entire site. Be careful.

[3 mins] *added: How to find out what template a page is using

[10 mins] “In This Section" The settings for these navigation widgets are on the templates. The Navigation pulls directly from the navigation in Pages, under Home. 

[3 mins] How to move pages

[5 mins] Sitefinity’s new interface. Global setting is under Administration. Personal setting is under person icon

[10 mins] On-Page SEO best practices

[5 mins] How to search for and edit Content items like news, events journals, etc.

[7 mins] How to manage lists of content items, like the ‘news’ listings on Division pages.

Training August 27, 2025

Aug 27 Training Recording [57:11 minutes]

• Gain Access to backend: 
• Find a page. Edit. Add content to existing page  
• Make updates, changes, corrections to text 
• Make updates, changes or include photos/other imagery 
• HTML mode” class="img-left"
• How to preview changes
• Add header 2, or H3.
• Address the best ways to copy/paste content
• Update a link in a button
• class="button"

Training August 29, 2025

Aug 29 Training Recording [50:19 minutes]

• 10 mins. Locked pages / content items. How to prevent, how to unlock.
• 10 mins. Make updates, changes, corrections to titles, Title & Properties
• 5 mins. Show how to adjust preferences – turn off tutorials.
• 5-10 mins. Update a linked PDF with a newer version of that PDF

Some References with regards to the Style Sheet:

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Heading 5

Here is how a link is styled

Use class="button" to style a link as a button

When inserting an image, the image can have text wrapped around it. The image can be to the left or to the right of the text with the wrapping. Use class="img-left" or class="img-right" with your image. This example is using Img left.

Fonts we saw on the ASPET site:

• Header font Oswald, sans-serif
• Font-family: "acumin-pro-condensed", sans-serif

How to test your google rankings:

• Come up with a few phrases that should be used to find ASPET, such as Pharmacology Training.
• Search google for “Pharmacology training” and note it’s placement:  6th page down, after mayo clinic, johns Hopkins, NIH, ACCP1.

OpenGraph fields are for social media sharing.

References

Article on writing good Alternative text

Article on good file names for SEO

Article on File Structure for better SEO

How to create new pages, and explaining the fields in Title and Properties

Overview of Content items, including how to add new items

How to add images and files, as well as set the “Alternative Text’ for images.

How to Manage Categories

Check broken links https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/ The free version will check the first 2000 links.