This past week a Sitefinity CMS project I was involved in for the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) was launched to the public.

My role in the operation was the template build (HTML) and styling (CSS). Integration into Sitefinity was a breeze – just basically plugging my HTML templates into a MasterPage and adding my style sheets to a new Theme.

We were able to use a lot of the existing controls that came with Sitefinity with only minimal customization along the way, where required.

Usually, when working with a CMS I have a long list of gripes – but with Sitefinity I’m a pretty happy guy.

However, nothing can be perfect, right? So a few things I noticed along the way which could be improved upon, in my opinion, within Sitefinity.

• By default, pasting in text into the CMS rich text editor does not render it in paragraph (<p>) tags. I found that most of the time I had to manually do this in the “HTML” view.
• I found configuring the rich text editor a bit finicky. Granted, this is my first crack at it, and, I very well could have been doing it the wrong way. Would appreciate feedback on this for those in the know…