Web site design features

The initial design and creation of your Web content management system is built on a development server. Once your system is complete, the development system is then used to create and test updates to your system.

• Plan a site framework

  Before creating a site framework, you should analyze your proposed site and determine the best way to develop your site framework.

• Work with elements

  Use elements to either store or generate Web content.

  You can add elements to sites, site areas, content items and authoring templates, or you can create a stand-alone component for a specific element type.

• Authoring templates

  An authoring template determines the design of a content form, defines what fields and elements appear on a content form and specifies default values for fields and elements.

• Work with content items

  Use content items to store Web-page specific content in the form of elements.

• Presentation templates

  Presentation templates determine the structure of each web page in yours site, and which elements and components are displayed on each page.

• Template maps

  Template maps are used to determine which presentation templates are used to display each content item.

• Develop a profiling strategy

  Use the profiling features of IBM Lotus Web Content Management to group content items into different types of content.

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Web Content Management concepts

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