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SDL Digital Experience Accelerator features

A list of the features included in DXA.

FeatureImplementation
Web ApplicationWeb Application uses an ASP.NET MVC 5 architecture (and DD4T-based Content Provider) and requires a database as its Content Data Store.
BluePrintThe default BluePrint structure is linear and consists of 3 Publications. You can implement your own BluePrint.
Security ModelThree Roles are defined: Site Manager, Editor and Developer.
TemplatingTemplating is implemented on the Content Delivery side using ASP.NET Razor Views. Some (.NET) Content Manager based template building blocks are used to publish navigation, configuration and resource data assets and the HTML design assets.
HTML designThe HTML design combines the Bootstrap framework with a number of third-party plugins and can be customized/extended on a number of levels.
Responsive designThe Example Site is responsive both client-side and server-side, the design changes adapts to the device from which it is viewed.
Navigation and sitemap
The organization of Structure Groups and Pages in the Publication is exposed in the following Web site items:
  • Top navigation—shows the top-level Structure Group names
  • Left navigation—shows the sibling Structure Groups and sibling Pages for the current page
  • Breadcrumb—shows the site structure to the current page
  • Sitemap—shows all visible pages in the site
  • Google sitemap—XML that shows all pages on the Web site for Search Engine consumption and available at WEBSITE/sitemap, where WEBSITE is the URL of the example Web site
Example Site contentThe contents of the site consist of "lorem ipsum" dummy content combined with royalty-free stock images.
Image resizingA single high resolution version of each image is managed and published from the Content Manager. This is resized by the web application to fit the design of the content element where it is displayed, and the display properties of the client device.
Multi-language supportThe Web site is set up to support multiple languages. Content Manager elements (Schema and template names and so on.) are all in English only.
Experience ManagerThe majority of pages and content are fully editable in Experience Manager, and the Example Site contains a set of page types to create new content.
Site FeaturesThe web application includes:
  • Separately managed header and footer
  • Separately managed navigation elements (Top, Left, Breadcrumb, Language Selector, Sitemaps)

  • Separately managed and localizable labels/resources and configuration

  • A variety of page layouts: Home page, Section pages, Content pages (with and without navigation)

  • Configurable social sharing toolbar, and links to social network pages.

  • Auto-populated open graph metadata for social sharing

  • Dynamic content lists based on broker queries

  • Various types of content: Articles, maps, downloads, videos, teasers
  • Various types of content list: Link lists, carousels, tabbed lists, accordions, paged lists and image galleries
  • Notification bars for cookie usage, and unsupported/old browser versions
  • Extensionless URLs, and internal/external redirect/short URLs

  • Client device detection using the Context Engine

IntegrationThe Web site allows the following integrations:
  • integration with the most common social networks
  • integration with YouTube
  • integration with Google Maps
  • integration with Google Analytics