Configure Content Management sites
Planning a CMS site involves obtaining resources, communicating with others about design, and gathering content.
Before you begin
Role required: content_admin or admin
About this task
The following steps are a high-level overview of how to set up a site.
Procedure
Plan and design your content.
Create a site.
The site is the container that holds all the content. To simplify your process, you can copy an existing site and edit its components. For more information on creating a site, see Create a site. For more information on copying a site, see Copy a site.
Add pages to the site.
Pages contain blocks of information for the site. For more information, see Create a content page.
Create content blocks to customize the layout, headers, menu navigation, lists, and static and dynamic content.
Content blocks are chunks of actual HTML that make up the content page. There are various content block types available to help with your customization. For more information, see Content blocks.
Add style to your site using themes, style sheets, and frames.
Neither content sites or content pages reference style sheets directly. Configure them using the Themes or Style Sheets options. For more information, see Style in Content Management.
Test the site.
After you create or modify a site, test the site to ensure that content displays properly and all links work correctly. For more information, see Test the site.
Content sites
A content site is a group of related content pages that have the same basic theme, layout, and URL suffix.- Content pages in CMS
Content pages are the core of the Content Management System. A content page is a web page that displays blocks of content. - Content Management templates
Templates are content pages that are reused to provide a consistent look and feel. - Content types
Content types provide site-specific control of how system data defined by templates is rendered. - Content blocks
A block is a defined piece of content within the system that can be reused. - Style in Content Management
Content pages can be styled with CSS, just like any HTML website. - Content Management meta tags
Meta tags are special tags in web pages that contain information about the page but are not rendered with the page. You can define custom meta tags for content pages.
Parent Topic:Content Management System
Related topics
Domain separation and the Content Management System
Content Management integration points