Work more efficiently with Sitefinity’s new UI

Sitefinity 4.0 is packed with user experience (UX) improvements based on customer and partner feedback. The new interface is streamlined to remove friction and frustration from the content editing experience. Significant functionality improvements are provided by Sitefinity’s ajaxified backend and personalized navigation is presented by Sitefinity’s role-based user interface. Distraction-free dialogs streamline content creation and contextual help provides instant answers.

Speed up your content management process with the Sitefinity’s Unparalleled Performance

The Sitefinity’s administration has been optimized to handle enormous amounts of data without any impact on performance. Even with 500,000 items, the system responsiveness will not be affected thanks to the client-side binding techniques and ajaxification. Searching, paging, and sorting of different content items are all instantaneous.

Set up projects faster with the new Project Manager new

Sitefinity 4.0’s Project Manager is a desktop application that allows projects to be created, deployed and upgraded in a fully automatic way. New projects can be created in seconds on a local file system, FTP host or network share. The web site can then be launched with a single click. The Project Manager’s built-in web server eliminates the need to manually configure a local web server to test the new web site.

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Apply advanced security & permissions

Sitefinity 4.0 introduces improvements such as stronger password verification policies. In addition, permissions can be set on a per user basis without requiring the user to be part of a certain role in the organization. Sitefinity also supports extremely granular security that allows unique user-level permissions to be attached to everything in the CMS from a single content item, to pages and CMS settings and configuration.

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Easily create rich formatting with the new Layout Builder

Powerful new styling options are available with the latest version of Sitefinity. With Sitefinity 4.0 page templates become a starting point for your page layout development. Once a template is selected, new columns & sub-layouts can be effortlessly added through a user-friendly drag & drop interface. The Page Layout Builder empowers anyone to experiment with different content layouts and format content in real time.

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Spread your message and keep your customers informed new

Enhanced RSS and Atom Syndication for Blogs guarantee that your latest messages immediately reach your audience. Visitors can easily subscribe to these syndicated feeds. Furthermore, it’s effortless to create specialized syndication feeds by using Sitefinity’s powerful content classifications. You can easily define the number of items in the feed as well as the level of detail (title, part or full content) included in the feed. These specialized syndication feeds give your audience the ability to tailor their subscriptions and give you insight into the content that is most impactful.

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Recover from editing mistakes and rescue content effortlessly new

All content in Sitefinity is automatically versioned. Each content version is numbered and includes information about date of last editing, status and author. Notes can also be attached to content versions to simplify the editing process and quickly identify important revisions. Furthermore, Sitefinity makes it easy to compare content versions by highlighting differences.

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Organize your information through advanced content classification (taxonomy)

As data volumes in your organization increase, so does the need for classification. Taxonomies bring context to words, topic areas and search results. When combined with meta-tagging tools, text analytics and search software, enterprise taxonomies support accurate search and guided navigation that can’t be achieved with search engines alone. Simple implementations might create a set of terms without hierarchies (tags). More complex implementations might require hierarchies of terms (categories). Sitefinity 4.0 not only supports simple tags & categories, but also supports facet & network taxonomies. These advanced taxonomies allow powerful content relations to be represented in Sitefinity. To understand the importance of these taxonomies, review the following graphs:

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Sitefinity 4.0 also allows you to classify different content types with the same category or tag since categorization is provider and data-base independent. Regardless of whether you would like to categorize your videos stored on Amazon S3 and your blog posts stored in your SQL database on your server, you can apply the same tags or categories thus ensuring that your taxonomy is consistent and when searching for a specific term (tag or category), you will get all results within seconds.

Building web forms has never been easier new

Registrations, surveys, questionnaires, and applications can all be created with the flexible Sitefinity form builder. By using drag and drop widgets (text boxes, multiple choice, checkboxes, etc) you can create a new form without writing a single line of code. Once the form is published, submissions are stored and can be analyzed and shared with your team at any time.

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Customize the views of the Sitefinity’s modules

All Sitefinity modules now feature View gadgets which can help you predefine the number of news articles, filter the items by a category and so on. By configuring the View gadget, you can configure the List Settings and Single Item settings. Using advanced filters, with no coding required, you can predefine which news to display, which fields to show for your news items, etc.

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Personalize the Sitefinity Administration based on your needs

Every CMS allows you to customize the pages visible to your site visitors, but Sitefinity also allows you to manage the administrative backend of a Sitefinity project. You can edit the page structure and elements such as the dashboard, content, settings, and so on from the Configuration section of Sitefinity. You can personalize the Sitefinity CMS based on the roles and the responsibilities of the different CMS users -site administrators, content contributors, and everyone who is working with the CMS backend, thus simplifying the interface and reducing possibilities of error.

If you want to customize the administration, add something unique to it, remove or add functionality, you can do it at a glance with the same page editor you use to create or edit pages.

Localize the Sitefinity administration area for your CMS users

The new version of Sitefinity comes with a User Interface for localization of the CMS administration menus, labels and messages. This allows you to translate CMS messages in a user-friendly manner. All modifications are marked with a time stamp and linked to a resource version. During project upgrades, new items can be easily identified and translated.

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