Below is the recording of Sitecore Introductory Training - Session 2, which covers below topics: Templates Fields & Field types Standard Values Media Library Layouts Renderings. The recording is not perfect as it lost the audio for last couple of minutes. I am planning to record the sessions for each topic separately and upload. I … Continue reading Sitecore Introductory Training – Session II
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Building Home page Components – Services Section
Last but not least, we will create the Services section component after which our Home page will be completed. This section has one dependency that is it allows user to click on each service and that is redirected to Service Details page. The section looks like the screen below: A carousal with 5 services items. … Continue reading Building Home page Components – Services Section
Building Home page Components – “Why Choose Us?”
In this blog, we will be working on the Why Choose Us? component which looks like below screen: The section contains the fields like - Image, Title, Summary & CTA. So we will create a template for the About item and inherit the CTA template in it. Also we will set presentation details to this … Continue reading Building Home page Components – “Why Choose Us?”
Building Home page components – Facts & Figures
In this blog, we will be working on the Facts & Figures component which looks like below screen: The section contains the fields like - Success Figures & Supporting Text. So we will create a template for the FactsNFigures item and will also create one container that will have all the Facts and Figures items. … Continue reading Building Home page components – Facts & Figures
Building Home page Components – Testimonials
In this blog, we will be working on the Testimonials component which looks like below screen: One background image, that can be managed from CSS, and a carousal with the fields like - Testimonial Text, Image, Customer Name, Designation. So we will create a template for the Testimonial item and will also create one container … Continue reading Building Home page Components – Testimonials
Building Home page Components – Safe & Secure tagline section
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
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
Creating a Layout – Part I
Welcome back! Till now we have created templates and content based on those templates. Its a time we start creating a layout. So Layout in Sitecore is similar to a Master page concept in web forms which we will be using on all the pages. So as we know about Static and Dynamic renderings. We … Continue reading Creating a Layout – Part I
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 are Renderings? Which ones we frequently use?
Hope the learning series is quite easy to understand. Please reach out to me in case of any queries, will try to solve the queries at the earliest. In Sitecore CMS, every web page is split into multiple pieces/blocks and each of these blocks is rendered/presented by different components (a piece of functionality) separately. Every … Continue reading What are Renderings? Which ones we frequently use?
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