Wrap up

Summary of key concepts

In this tutorial, both the key concepts and terminology were described to help you understand the benefits of the product. Additionally, you saw how to create some of the key components required to design and build a page and ultimately build a site. Key concepts included:

• Separation of content and presentation. Content can be presented in many different ways. The presentation can be dynamically updated without impacting the original content.
• Componentization. A page constructed in ILWWCM exists of reusable components such as navigators, menus, and content objects. Content objects exist as components that can include a title, main text body, and highlighted text. Components can be reused in various parts of the site and can be presented differently based upon their underlying page design.
• Navigation within the site is determined by the underlying Information Architecture and the actual site framework.
• Content is entered through a content template.
• Page designs ultimately control the presentation of content. Content templates are paired with a specific page design.

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Summary of steps to build a page

The following summary provides a high level overview of the steps required when building pages for a site.

Before you can start to build the design and specific pages of the Web site, the Information Architecture must be in place. This means:

• The site framework has been created, since it is the basis for the navigator.
• The Category Taxonomy has been defined, since this will be the basis for building menus as another way of navigation through the site.

Your security model should be defined, since you must define security at the object level. You should also define any required workflows and determine which access groups need to be created.

Based on a graphic mock-up of the Web site you have to:

• Identify the basic layout of the pages and the design components you need to create.
• Create the design components.
• Create the page design and write XML tags that are referencing design and content components.
• Create content templates to provide the necessary fields for entering content.
• Pair the content templates with the page designs in the Site Area objects.

Finally, once those tasks have been accomplished, the authors can create content objects and send them into the workflow. After passing all workflow stages, the Web page will be published on the live Web site.

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Table of contents

• Before you start
• Key concepts
• Build a page
• Create navigators, menus, and page design
• Create content templates and build the page
• Wrap up
• Resources
• About the author

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