The website creator
A website creator is responsible for building a website by creating presentation templates, authoring templates, site areas, components and categories. The web site creator is also responsible for creating content management items such as folders and workflows. The items created by a website creator are based on the designs created by the information architect and graphic designer.
Create web content management items
Before creating a website, the web content creator begins by creating any required content management items:Create folders
- Folders are used to store item-types within logical groupings.
Create workflows
- Workflows are required to manage the approval processes of items.
Create projects
- Projects are used to manage the approval process of a collection of items.
Create a website
To create a website the following Web Content Manager items will need to be created:- Site areas are used to define the site framework of a site. Content items that form part of the site framework will be stored within the site framework.
Authoring templates
- Authoring templates are required for the different types of pages in a website. Content items created by content authors will be based in the authoring templates created by the website creator.
- Presentation templates determine the layout of the pages in a website and are linked to authoring templates by the template maps defined in site areas.
Elements and components
- Elements are added to authoring templates and site areas to store different types of content. Components are used to create single elements that can be reused across a website.
Categories
- Categories are used to profile items that have been configured to allow content profiling.
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