The video for my 2025 Codegarden talk "The Evolution of Gridded Content in Umbraco" is now online.
Talk Description
Since the development of CSS-based grid systems, Umbraco developers have been working on ways to allow Content Editors to manage grid-layout content in user-friendly ways. Fortunately, that effort has contributed to the flexible and structured Data types now available in Umbraco’s core.
Heather will review how website design trends have changed the way we think about constructing a content page and a brief history of “grids” in Umbraco, since version 7. We’ll also look at the advantages inherent in using Element types to organize otherwise “unstructured” pages.
Key Takeaways
- Content Blocks and Block Grid today: different ways to think about grid content.
- Ways to make the user experience of adding grid layout pages easy for Content Editors.
- How to give your Editors power over the layout without them having to understand the grid framework CSS
