Meet the content designer, your new tool for building eye-catching pages without the hassle. It gives you a powerful way to create and structure content exactly how you want to.

Every page consists of sections, containers, and your content. Sections define horizontal areas on your page and help separate topics and organize your content. Containers live inside those sections and control your content layout. Every new page starts with a default section and container. That's your foundation, your starting point.

Every element has its own contextual toolbar. It only appears when the element is selected, and it only shows relevant options. In the container settings, you can adjust the layout, for example three columns or two depending on how you want to arrange content side by side. Under design, you can add a background color from your brand colors or choose a background image. Under visibility, you control who sees what and on which devices, and you can target specific groups within the same page.

To add content, click either the blocks button in the contextual toolbar or in the sidebar. You'll find all the building blocks for your page. Either click or drag and drop a block to your page. For title and text blocks, you can adjust size, alignment, add profile tags for personalization, change the color, and use emojis.

The title block is recommended for the main heading, and the text block for any headings that follow. This helps make your page more accessible to screen reader users. Text blocks support mentions, hashtags, classic formatting like italic, links, lists, and block quotes. Some blocks like the news block offer layout variations. Use My Files to add media like images, which you can resize and crop directly on the canvas without affecting the original file.

You can nest up to three container blocks within each other. The navigation panel shows the full structure of your document and is especially useful in large pages. The sidebar also contains undo/redo buttons and keyboard shortcuts, including Command/Control+Shift+K for a quick actions box.

When working on your page, you can save changes as draft and nothing will be visible to your users yet. Use the preview panel to check how your page looks across devices. When ready, click publish and your page goes live. The actions menu lets you open the published page, unpublish, access version history, copy the link, or delete the page.

The Content Designer helps you build attractive, modern pages in a true WYSIWYG approach. By combining sections, containers, and blocks, you can quickly create clear and engaging pages without needing any technical expertise.

In this video, we'll use the Content Designer to build a simple department page. You can recreate and adapt it in your own environment.

Every page starts with a section and a container. Sections define horizontal areas, and containers hold and arrange your content. As you build, you can select any element to access its contextual toolbar with all the available options.

To create the department header, add a background image to the first section, then add a title block. Use the title block at the very top of your page and text blocks for any headings that follow. This creates a clear document structure that is easier for screen readers. Add supporting text beneath the title and experiment with colors. If contrast is an issue, go back to the background image and add a color overlay, adjusting the opacity to regulate contrast.

Below the header, create a quick access section with a three-column layout to highlight important resources. Add quick links using drag and drop or by clicking directly into a container. Customize each link's icon, layout, and styling. Add a muted background color to the container to help the links stand out.

For the main content area, add a two-column section. On the left, add a news block and choose a channel. On the right, introduce the department head using a user profile block, then group it into a container with a background color. Create additional containers for team groups using the group subscription button, and for key documents using My Files or a placeholder block. Insert dividers between sections for better spacing.

Add an accordion block for campaigns content to keep the page structured and easy to scan. Each accordion panel collapses on the published page. Select the parent container and add a background image, then give the accordion a plain white background for readability.

The final section introduces the team. Add a heading, then a container split into four columns, and add a user profile block in each column. Add a gray background color to the container for visual consistency.

The result is a structured department page with a clear navigation area, relevant content, and important resources. Preview your page and publish when ready.

Let's compare the Classic Page Editor and the Content Designer, starting with page layout.

In the Classic Editor, your foundation is a single linear document. To place content side by side, you add predefined layout areas using the sections button in the toolbar. In the Content Designer, layout is controlled inside containers. Your page consists of sections by default, and they have containers inside them which house all the content. These containers can be split into various column layouts via their settings, and you can drag and drop any container to flexibly rearrange large chunks of content.

For adding content in the Classic Editor, you add paragraphs directly on the canvas, with elements like dividers, tables, media, and widgets available via the top toolbar. Settings like visibility or styling options are defined before you add the element, and changes only become visible when you hit save. In the Content Designer, content elements are replaced by blocks, available in a collapsible side panel. Text is also a block and not directly on the canvas. When selected, a block shows a contextual toolbar where you can change settings and see the changes immediately in a WYSIWYG way.

For text formatting, the Classic Editor shows all formatting options in the top toolbar. In the Content Designer, text formatting is contextual and formatting options only appear when the text block is selected. Both support bold, headings, and alignment changes.

For styling content areas, the Classic Editor has limited background styling but supports a hero image widget. In the Content Designer, sections and containers can have background colors and images, giving you more design flexibility.

For publishing, in the Classic Editor, saving a previously published page makes changes live immediately. In the Content Designer, you save changes as draft and only when ready click Update, then your changes go live to the published page.

In summary: the Classic Editor is compact and linear, similar to a traditional text editor. The Content Designer is spacious and modular, organizing content blocks in a flexible framework that adapts dynamically as you edit for instant visual feedback.

Here we can see a Classic Editor version of a page. At the top, there is a button to click Move to Content Designer, which starts the process. A pop-up appears confirming this is a preview and that after you complete the move, you can no longer edit the page in the Classic Editor.

The preview shows what the page will look like when edited in the Content Designer. It carries over everything that was already in the Classic Editor page. You can go in and make any changes, save as draft, and then click Complete Move, and the page transfers into the Content Designer.

In the Pages overview, there is also a Ready for Content Designer tab, which lists all pages that can be migrated, making it easy to identify which pages are eligible.