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
Oracle Content Server is the main repository for your Web site. Oracle Content Server enables everyone in your organization to easily contribute content, efficiently manage
the content with rich library services, and securely access content anywhere.
As part of Universal Content Management UCM, Site Studio employs many of the built-in services that the content server has to offer, such as managed content, Idoc
Script, security, and workflow. You can use the Site Studio Administration page on the content server to administer several tasks related to Site Studio see
Site Studio Administration Page in Oracle Content Server
on page 5-42. Site Studio also works in tandem with other components, like Dynamic Converter and
Check Out and Open, which enable users to seamlessly incorporate native documents Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and so forth on their Web site. Dynamic
Converter is used to convert native documents into web pages that then appear on the Web site. Check Out and Open is used to provide an in-context check out option
directly from the web page where the document appears. Additionally, this option will launch the native application and open the file for editing.
You may also choose to enable Oracle Content Servers folders functionality or other capabilities to make it easier for contributors to submit content to the site. Experience
with Oracle Content Server and its add-ons is helpful in creating and managing Web sites with Site Studio. Please see the Oracle Content Server documentation for more
information.
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1.4 Reusable Assets and Content
Most Web sites begin with the creation of a single HTML or scripting-based web page. The look and feel of the site is designed and site navigation is determined. Content,
typically a mixture of text and graphics, is added last. As the site grows, this first page can be saved under a new name and essentially serve as a template for future web
pages, all of which are connected.
This approach works well until you find yourself making a global change to the Web site, which could require individual edits to every page on the site. To do this, many
large Web sites take a modular approach that uses dynamic includes and database-driven web pages. As a result, portions of content are assembled to display
as a single web page when the web browser requests it. Thus, site navigation, advertisements, headers and footers, and information that changes frequently can be
updated just once and take effect immediately. However, this requires a significant development effort and a lot of coordination.
Site Studio takes a similar approach, but it goes one step further by offering reusable layout and content. Some site assets, such as page templates, region templates, and
placeholders, are used to provide background information look and feel for a typical web page, while other assets, such as region definitions and element
definitions, can modify and filter the layout and content, leaving much of the content of the page open for contributors to create and edit within the given page. Individual
portions of the web page both content and layout can be made reusable, allowing those assets to be used and reused multiple times in the same way the page templates
themselves are used and reused.
1.5 Web Sites in HCSP, JSP, and ASP
