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Sitecore First Aid Kit : Standard fields, listed and explained - 1

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Introduction Sitecore is a powerhouse. That being said it is also a huge pile of configurable sweetness, and as with each pile of goodies, things tend to become lost or confused. Sitecore allows for so much modifications, configurations and so on that it can't hurt to keep some overview from time to time. This post is aimed at looking into the bare bones building blocks of Sitecore: Content and the fields that make up that content. I will not go into detail on which fields exist within Sitecore that allow you to define specific data templates for your content objects. Enough technical information exists on that already. My goal is to give you a run-through of the Standar Fields. You can also find a high level description of the fields in the Data Definition Reference on Sitecore SDN for any specific version of Sitecore. This first post give insight into the first three sections : Advanced, Appearance and Help. The other sections will be handled in subsequent