About Site Studio Designer, Manager, and Contributor

1 Introduction 1-1 1 Introduction This section covers the following topics: ■ About Site Studio on page 1-1 ■ Designer, Manager, and Contributor on page 1-1 ■ Oracle Content Server and Site Studio on page 1-2 ■ Reusable Assets and Content on page 1-3 ■ Web Sites in HCSP, JSP, and ASP on page 1-3 ■ Whats New on page 1-3 ■ Accessibility Features on page 1-9 ■ System Requirements on page 1-11

1.1 About Site Studio

Site Studio is a powerful, flexible web development application suite that offers a comprehensive approach to designing, building, and maintaining enterprise-scale Web sites. It goes beyond conventional Web site development solutions by offering Web site creation and content management all in one. Everything associated with the Web site, including all site assets such as templates, graphics, CSS files, and the like and all site content, is stored and managed in the content server. Site Studio dramatically improves productivity and enables organizations to maintain accurate, timely, and current web content with consistent branding and presentation across all corporate sites. With Site Studio, you can centralize control of site architecture and presentation, while distributing content development and ongoing maintenance to business units or other teams.

1.2 Designer, Manager, and Contributor

Site Studio comprises three applications, which reflect the three distinct users of Site Studio: designers, managers, and contributors. Note: Site Studio 11gR1 is fully backward compatible to 10gR4. Site Studio Designer 11gR1 can also work with sites created in Site Studio releases 10gR3 and earlier. It is important to note, though, that sites creates with Site Studio versions 10gR3 and earlier continue to work in legacy mode; that is, they can not take advantage of the architecture and features of Site Studio 11gR1. 1-2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Site Studio Designer The Site Studio Designer application provides the development environment in which a single individual the site designer can create, design, and distribute the site. The designer is typically a webmaster, a web developer, a site administrator, or someone in a similar position. Typically, one designer works with multiple managers and contributors. The Site Studio Manager application provides a web-based site management console that can be used by one or more site managers to maintain the structure of the site. The manager is often the head of a division or department. See the Administrator and Managers Guide for Site Studio for more information. The Site Studio Contributor application enables assigned individuals within an organization the contributors to update the content on the Web site whenever they want using an inline editing environment that can be called directly from the Web site. Contributors are usually non-technical users and might be members of the marketing team or sales team. See the Users Guide for Site Studio Contributor for more information. Designers of the site spend most of their time in the Designer application, using the Manager and Contributor applications mostly to preview or test the site. Managers spend most of their time in Manager and may occasionally use Contributor to make minor edits. Contributors most likely work exclusively in Contributor. Of course, the same individual can design, manage, and contribute to the Web site a more likely scenario in a smaller organization. Even though these applications are separate, they are tightly integrated. The tasks performed in Designer affect Manager and Contributor, and tasks performed in Manager affect Contributor. For example, setting up a Manager fragment or assigning content to pages in Designer, or modifying the editing menu available to the contributors, directly affect the appearance and behavior of Manager and Contributor.

1.3 Oracle Content Server and Site Studio