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Developing a Web content system

You use Web Content Management to develop, manage and deliver Web content in the form of Web pages and portlets.

• Before creating Web content
  Before using IBM^® Lotus Web Content Management™, you should become familiar with the terminology used in Web Content Management and the basic Web content development process.
• Working with libraries
  Before creating Web content, create a set of libraries to store your Web content items in. You also define the role that users and groups will have when working with different item types in libraries.
• Creating a site framework
  A site framework is a similar concept to the "site map" of a traditional Web site. Whereas a site map is based on a directory structure or the links between pages in a Web site, a site framework consists of a set of a single site under which a set of site areas and content items are grouped.
• Developing a profiling strategy
  You use the profiling features of IBM Lotus Web Content Management to group content items into different types of content.
• Customizing Web content authoring
  Base level content authors may not create anything but content items. You can modify the authoring portlet to hide different sections of the authoring portlet from different users and groups. You can also use authoring templates to simplify the content item form itself so that content authors are only required to complete a small number of fields.
• Developing a workflow strategy
  You use workflows to control the access to, verification and eventual approval of items. Only if an item is approved at all stages up to a published stage can it be viewed on your web site.
• Developing an access control strategy
  You can restrict access to selected users and groups to the views within an authoring portlet, the items managed by the authoring portlet, and to elements and pages displayed within a Web site.
• Working with elements
  You 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.
• Installing a remote spell checker
  Install a remote spell checker.
• Set up a remote spell checker
  Set up spell checker to run on a remote application server.
• Configuring access to a remote spell checker
  Configure access to run spell checker on a remote server.
• Searching Sites
  You use Portal Search to search for text displayed in Web sites created by IBM Lotus Web Content Management.
• Displaying Web content
  You use Web content tags and placeholders within presentation templates and element designs to display elements and metadata on a Web page.
• Managing items
  You can use features, such as version control and workflows, to manage the items used to develop Web content.
• Working with other applications
  You can use IBM Lotus Web Content Management to display content stored in or generated by other applications.
• Extending Web Content Management
  You can extend the standard features of IBM Lotus Web Content Management using the Web Content Management API and JSP files.
• Creating Web sites for different localities
  Although Web sites that automatically display content for different localities or languages are not directly supported by Web Content Management, it is possible to maintain separate libraries and sites within IBM Lotus Web Content Management for different localities.