As we discussed in the chapter on type inheritance, many content types fit the same pattern: some structured fields around a Body of rich text.
An Article has a Title, Author, Published Date, etc., and also a rich text Body field that’s the main content of the article. An Employee Bio would have the same pattern: First Name, Last Name, Job Title, and…a big rich text field for the Bio.
This is such a common pattern that a lot of systems are built around it. It’s not coincidental the built-in model for many systems starts with a Title and Body field. The Title has to be there so the system could show the content in lists and menus, and the the Body was there because, well, that’s the content.
We often don’t structure the body field. It’s just rich text, composed in some WYSIWYG tool, and we let editors do whatever they want in there, using whatever formatting tools available in their editor. (Which is, in itself, often a source of great debate.)
However, the industry is trending toward more structure in rich text. What used to be just a big field of HTML is becoming an aggregation of special, embedded content objects. This has considerable impact on how you might model your content.