The Web site creator
A Web site creator is responsible for building a Web site by creating presentation templates, authoring templates, site areas, components and categories. They are also responsible for creating content management items such as folders and workflows. The items created by a Web site creator are based on the designs created by the information architect and graphic designer.
Creating Web content management items
Before creating a Web site, the Web content creator begins by creating any required content management items:
Table 1. Content management tasks
Task Related documentation Creating workflows:
Workflows are required to manage the approval processes of items.
- Creating a publish action
- Creating an expire action
- Creating an e-mail action
- Creating a custom action
- Creating a version action
- Creating a scheduled move action
- Creating a workflow stage
- Creating a workflow
Creating a Web site
To create a Web site the following Web Content Management items will need to be created:
Table 2. Web site architecture tasks
Task Related documentation Site areas:
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 Web site. Content items created by content authors will be based in the authoring templates created by the Web site creator.
Presentation templates:
Presentation templates determine the layout of the pages in a Web site 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 Web site.
Taxonomies:
Taxonomies are used to profile items that have been configured to allow content profiling.
Parent topic:
Web Content Management roles