Understanding Site Studio Web Sites

Site Studio provides a powerful set of tools that can make designing, building, and maintaining Web sites simpler and more efficient. To get the most out of these tools, it is useful to understand some basic concepts about Site Studio Web sites.

Important: Some concepts introduced in Site Studio 10gR4 are quite different from previous releases. It is therefore recommended that you read this section even if you are familiar with Site Studio.

This section covers the following topics:

• Managed Web Sites

• Separation of Site Presentation and Content

• Site Asset Storage

• Site Roles

• Presentation Model

• Contribution Model

• Site Object Hierarchy

• Reusing Site Assets

• Elements and Element Definitions

• Region Templates and Region Definitions

• Placeholders and Placeholder Definitions

• Subtemplates

• Page Templates

• Contributor Data Files and Native Documents

• Fragments

• Cascading Style Sheets

• Project Files

• Primary and Secondary Pages