Support for various content types
- Martin Tsekov
The Sportal365 CMS lets journalists/editors create and manage four major types of content – Articles, Videos, Galleries, and Images–to meet the diverse consumption habits of their audience. All content types follow a similar creation and optimization logic and can be displayed as a separate entity on your website.
While all types of content can appear on your website on their own, they can also be combined to deliver richer and more informative content; articles can contain videos, image galleries, and widgets, videos can include a body of text, images, and widgets, and so can galleries.
The optimization of each content type happens with a set of content properties available in the system, which will be explained in detail in the Content properties for specific content titles section.
Note that the properties used for content optimization of articles, videos, and galleries follow the same general logic, but may vary slightly for each content type.
Images are an exception and are optimized differently. See the Images section below.
Articles
The CMS allows journalists and editors to easily create and manage rich sports-focused articles. To better understand the general idea and possibilities when creating articles, consider the following:
To create a new article inside the system, three elements must be in place–a Title, a Category, and an Author. If those three fields are not occupied, you won’t be able to create, save, or publish a new article.
Note that even though articles are rarely published without images, images are not a mandatory component to create and publish articles.
The body of articles is broken down into blocks, or what we call the Blocky. Each block has an editing panel, which allows journalists to polish and develop their content. Blocky lets creators highlight important passages in articles, insert contextual widgets and football statistics, as well as combine various types of content inside the body of their articles.
Writing in blocks optimizes the content-creation process easier, and makes possible the native display of content on mobile devices.
Note that you can paste text from an outside source (e.g. Word) and the CMS will automatically break it down into blocks.
See About Blocky.
Videos
Videos are a popular content format with the main body, components, and general creation logic almost identical to that of Articles and Galleries.
What is specific for Videos?
Similarities with other content types.
Videos can combine other content types, statistics, and social feeds inside their bodies.
Similarly to articles, videos need three components to be created.
The main body of videos is written and edited in blocks.
Videos can be saved as drafts.
Videos can be optimized.
Videos can be used as supporting content in other content types.
Galleries
Galleries have a main body, components, and general creation logic almost identical to that of articles and videos.
What is specific for Galleries?
Similarities with other content types.
Galleries can combine other content types, statistics, and social feeds inside their bodies.
Similarly to articles and videos, galleries need three things to be created.
The main body of galleries is written and edited in blocks.
Galleries can be optimized.
Galleries can be used as supporting content in other content types.
Galleries can appear as a separate entity on your website.
Images
Images is the content type that differs in its creation and editing logic from the rest.