According to the flow, we should have created Services we offer section but those services will need the details page as well so we will create that component as the last component while building the Home page. Till now if you have any queries then please get in touch with me and give a brief … Continue reading Building Home page Components – Safe & Secure tagline section
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Building Home page Components – Featured Services section
As we did end to end steps for building the Banner component, we will do the same for this component as well. The feature section which I am talking about is as below: Lets create this component from scratch and we will be using View rendering to render this component on the front end. From … Continue reading Building Home page Components – Featured Services section
Building Home page Components – Main Banner
In this blog, we will build the Banner component end to end i.e. from creating template, creating Media items, content and renderings. So when the individual developers take an responsibility of the components, they create it in similar fashion. The Main Banner on the Home page is like: So how we can see it as … Continue reading Building Home page Components – Main Banner
Creating a Layout – Part III
In the previous blog, we had created Header component. As we are new to the concepts, I am covering the steps in detail. If you have idea then you can skip some steps and follow yours as well. For making it easy, we will create Footer component first. Create a new View and name it … Continue reading Creating a Layout – Part III
Datasources in Sitecore
Datasources are used for various reasons and at various places. There are mainly 2 types of Data sources. Field Datasources These Datasources are one we discussed while discussing the field types. In the templates area each field type has a text box as Source. Some field types require a value in it and some don’t … Continue reading Datasources in Sitecore
Sitecore – Dynamic Placeholders
Dynamic Placeholders come handy when you need repetition of data or placeholders. Lets consider you have one placeholder ‘main’ in the layout. Then to distinguish the page types you have one-col, two-col and three-col renderings. And then finally you have the components/renderings which will fit in the content – lets use the same ones which … Continue reading Sitecore – Dynamic Placeholders
Sitecore – Placeholders and placeholder settings
As we learnt about the renderings in the last blog, we saw that for dynamic binding of renderings we need placeholders. Placeholders will help us to make the website as dynamic as possible but with this flexibility we might increase the chances of error as well so we will need to configure some settings so … Continue reading Sitecore – Placeholders and placeholder settings
What is Layout in Sitecore and How can we create it?
Layouts are the scaffolding for your web pages, and will usually include the <head> and <body> tags for the markup. They often pull in styling and JavaScript code but have little markup themselves, instead it have multiple placeholders in which one can plug component renderings. All the layouts reside at /sitecore/layout/Layouts There are a few … Continue reading What is Layout in Sitecore and How can we create it?
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