User Guide

This guide is intended for users of all levels of expertise. The guide describes in detail Sitefinity user interface - from logging to completing a project. Use it to learn how to create pages and structure the sitemap, create layout for the pages and populate it with widgets. Learn to use the content modules to create content, such as news, forms, and events, and upload different kinds of media and files. Add languages and translate both pages and content items and use a sophisticated publishing system to manage the workflow of your pages and content items.

• Login
  Learn how to login to Sitefinity and what possible errors you can get if you do not have proper permissions.
• Pages
  

  Learn how to create the pages of your website, how to structure them, how to edit their content and properties, manage permissions for pages, and more.

• Page layout
  Learn how to create a layout for your page that helps you display content on the page. You can work with predefined layouts, modify the predefined layouts, create your own layouts, or upload custom layout templates and themes.
• Website content
  After you have created your page layout, learn how to populate your pages with content by creating and publishing reusable content, such as news, events, images, videos and more and how to organize content with the help of classifications.
• Workflows
  Learn how to create a workflow for managing the lifecycle of content items and pages. You do that by creating first and second level of approval for content items and pages.
• Status of content items and pages
  Learn about the different statuses of content items and pages, how to set and change the status, and how to use statuses to manage the lifecycle workflow of content items or pages.

• Widgets
  Learn how to add widgets on your page and how to configure them. To display content you use widgets, which you drop on the page and configure them to display already existing content.

• Sitefinity Analytics
  Learn how to use the analytics module to track your website traffic and marketing effectiveness.
• Basic settings
  Learn how to use the Basic Settings page to easily change the most important and commonly used settings.

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