Hi All, 

I'm still fairly new to .Net and Umbraco and struggling with a couple things. I'm trying to come up with a way to empower my Editors to content layouts like adding columns. I have 100+ editors of all experience levels, so it needs to be child-proof. I've considered: Macros, Shortcodes, TinyMCE templates, Large flexible DocTypes, and plugins like Embedded Content.

Nothing seems to fit right. Either it's not robust enough, not child-proof, or too complicated for non-savvy editors.

I've never created a DataType, but here's an image of what I think it would look like:

The editor's process might be as follows:

1. Create new page
2. Goto Content tab and click New Content Row then select how many columns the row should contain
3. Below the selected number of columns are created. Each with a Content RTE and column span settings
4. The user can proceed to create additional column rows and move the rows up and down (arrows at the top of each row)

<div class="row">
    <div class="column span-7 t-span-2 m-span-1">
    Column 1 content
    </div>
    <div class="column span-5 t-span-1 m-span-1">
    Column 2 content
    </div>
</div>

Any suggestions on doing this?

If anyone has already found a better way of empowering editors to create columns I'd love to hear it. 

Thanks,

Dan