Site Connections

With Site Studio, you create your site on the content server and then associate various files (page templates, fragments, data files, and so on) with the site. To create the site, you must create what is called a site connection in Designer.

Designer uses a site connection to connect to and update Web sites stored in the content server. A site connection works much like a typical shortcut that you might add to your desktop for quick access to another program or file. You can add, edit, and delete a site connection without actually affecting the Web site in the content server. You can add as many site connections as you like, each one going to a different Web site.

Note:

Site Studio 10gR4 is fully backward compatible. This means that you can use Site Studio Designer 10gR4 to work with sites created in earlier Site Studio releases. It is important to note, though, that these sites continue to work in "legacy" mode; that is, they use the pre-10gR4 architecture and they do not take advantage of the architecture and features introduced in Site Studio 10gR4.

Perform the steps outlined in these topics to manage a site connection: