Efficient Web Site Planning

Site Studio Designer 10gR4 uses site assets to make the maintenance and upkeep of Web sites as efficient as possible. To best create a Web site in Site Studio, some design points should be remembered when planning the Web site and the site assets of the Web site.

Planning is key to building a successful Web site with Site Studio. Before you begin inserting text, graphics, and scripts into your page templates, you should ask: What is the function or role of the site? Is it a department-level site, a company-wide site, an internal site, an external site? How many users will visit the site? How many users will contribute to the site? Will there be different security access levels for each contributor? Do you plan to replicate or publish the site? Is the site expected to grow over time?

These are all important questions to ask before you begin. We cannot predict your particular needs, but we can suggest some key points that you should consider before developing your site:

• Planning the Web Site

• Naming Site Assets

• Planning the Contribution Model

• Order of Site Asset Creation

• Creating Element Definitions

• Creating Region Definitions

• Creating Region Templates

• Creating Subtemplates

• Creating Placeholder Definitions

• Creating Page Templates

• Planning the Site Hierarchy

The information in this section is about the functionality introduced in Site Studio 10gR4, and does not apply to previous versions of Site Studio.