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This topic aims to give some guidance about the type of content to create in different scenarios.

News and Events

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Mode: Website

Menu: Content > News or Events

By their nature, news and events are items that have a certain 'currency' i.e. they change regularly. The in built News and Events feature of SportzVault ensures:

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News and Event items are limited to 7500 characters each (including html markup). This should be sufficient in most cases.

Photos/Images Galleries

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Mode: Website

Menu: Content > Slideshow Galleries

A common need of sporting clubs is to upload photos/images relating to particular matches/events/functions etc. For example, you may wish to group and display photos taken at a particular day's play.

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  • Photos can be viewed easily as a slideshow - with either manual or automatic movement between each image
  • Captions can optionally be provided
  • Image thumbnails are automatically generated. This is a good way of giving the user a 'preview' of all photos without having to display all photos on the same page (which could lead to very slow download times)
  • Layout is taken care of for you

Other content

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Mode: Website

Menu: Content > HTML Pages > General Pages

This refers to content on your site that you may wish to create, some examples are

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