Tridion allows your authors to add as many Components to each Page of your website as they like, in any order, using any combination of the templates you provide. For example: Article teaser Article teaser Download with thumbnail Download with thumbnail Download with thumbnail This represents a page containing five Components using two ComponentTemplates. There […]
Content management
Template foundations in Tridion
One of the best things about Tridion is it’s flexibility. You’re free to create your website in whatever way you see fit – which is how a good Content Management System should be. The downside of all this flexibility is that the prospect of a completely blank Tridion Page Template can be a little daunting. […]
Leave SiteEdit off your live site
SiteEdit is SDL Tridion’s inline editing functionality. Once enabled, your editors can browse the staging site and edit pages there and then, without having to find the item they want through the Content Manager interface. SiteEdit works by surrounding the editable elements on a page with HTML span tags. <span id=”_SE_CP” _SE_C=”tcm:113-40744″ _SE_CP=”tcm:113-40744″ _SE_CT=”tcm:113-162-32″ _SE_CPt=”generalfull”> […]
Image caching in Tridion
One of the most effective ways to improve your website’s performance is to implement image caching. Without caching, every visitor downloads the same image every time they request a page. This means unnecessary load on your server and unnecessarily slow page load times for your audience. It also means search engines will take longer to […]
Spot the web design cowboy
The sad fact is that cowboys still roam the plains of the web design West. I rather optimistically assumed that the industry had grown out of blatantly ripping the client off, but time and again I hear horror stories about agencies both large and small. I suppose our industry is no different from any other, […]
