Getting started with content

Before you begin your content journey, you need to decide what content you're delivering, and which channels you're using. This design process determines what images, text, and other content your composers will be required to create.

Content types are used to define what pieces of content a composer will use to create a single content item. Your hub manager, in collaboration with your site designer and developer, is responsible for creating the different content types used by your business.

To create a new content type, go to Content model > Content types in your hub's navigation ribbon. Then, click Create content type.

Select the types of elements needed for this content type from the element palette. There should be a one-to-one relationship between the pieces of content defined in your website design, the elements defined in a content type, and the templates and layouts used by your developer to build your website, landing page, or app.

Each element type includes a set of configuration options that allows you to tailor each element for your composers. Add meaningful labels and help text, define mandatory fields, enable multiple entries, and more.

Some content types are designed specifically for use as page types with sites, or landing page types.

An image is used in more than one place. It can be used in different channels, such as a website, email, or social media. Or it can be viewed by using various media, such as a desktop, tablet, or smartphone. Each of these uses requires different image dimensions.

An image profile stores a predefined set of image dimensions for each of these uses. Your hub manager, in collaboration with your site designer and developer, creates the perfect image profile for each channel used by your business.

To create a new content type, go to Content model > Image profiles in your hub's navigation ribbon. Then, click Create image profile.

Add an image rendition for each use-case based on the design of your website or app.

Then, assign the image profile to an image element in a content type to link the image profile to your content model.

When a composer adds or selects an image in the content form, the image profile renditions re automatically applied to the image.

If you subscribe to the Essentials edition of Acoustic Content, or if your main focus is delivering content as a service (CAAS), you'll compose content from the Content libraries section of your hub's navigation ribbon.

If you subscribe to either the Trial or Standard editions of Acoustic Content, you can create and edit content using the site manager and content editor provided with the sample site and landing pages. Inline editing is also available from within the preview mode of your site or landing page.

Developers can also create content using the Acoustic Content command line interface (CLI).

When creating content, a composer selects a content type.

When creating pages, a composer selects a page type, or a landing page type.

The composer then completes all the fields in the content form, either by selecting assets from their hub's asset collection, or by entering text, or uploading files from their own sources.

Other hub users can add comments to your draft content using the comments tab of the content form.

You can set up informal reviews from the review tab of the content form.

Users of the Standard or Trial editions of Acoustic Content can also configure mandatory approvals of content. With this feature enabled, content items can't be published until an authorized user approves the content.

Developers, using the Acoustic Content API and the API Explorer, can reference individual content fields from a content item in web pages or apps.

Developers can view API information from the content form including the content ID, authoring URL, and JSON details.

These API references have already been created for the sample site and landing pages in your hub.

When content and assets are published in your hub, they are automatically rendered in the live site.