This is where you will do most of your day-to-day editing. It’s where to go when you want to update content, rather than if you need to change the layout of a page, or add and remove items from a page. The content editor presents a view of the website content in a tree view, showing parent items and allowing you to browse to child items. You will only see the areas you have access to in the content tree.
The user interface
The Content Editor’s user interface consists of three main areas that you can customize to fit your individual needs.
The three areas are:
The ribbon - the area where all the functionality is available.
The content tree - the area where all the items are organized.
The content area - the area where you can edit your items.
The ribbon
The ribbon consists of the System menu and tabs where all the functionality that you can use in the Content Editor is available.
The content tree
One of the main features of the Content Editor is the content tree, which presents all the items that are created in your Sitecore installation.
The Sitecore content tree has a similar structure to the one used in Windows Explorer, however, the Sitecore objects and groups are not represented by standard folder and file icons, but by many different icons.
You can expand and open every group in the Sitecore content tree just as you can with the folders in Windows Explorer.
Most of the content you need to edit sits on the subitems to a page (these are known as the page’s ‘components’), rather than the page itself:
When you select an item in the tree, the details of that item appear in the right column:
Some of the fields you need to edit will be rich text, with a standard web editor toolbar.
The content area
The content area is where you edit an item. When you click an item in the content tree two tabs appear in the content area.
In the top-right corner of the content area, additional functionality is available that is specific to the item that is selected.
Navigate - Browse to a specific section or field in the list of field values
Versions - Toggle between versions of the item or to add a new version
