Basic Content Manager concepts
For content authors, the most important building blocks for creating (Web) content are Components and Pages and the most important concept is BluePrinting which manages content sharing and localizing between Web site Publications.
- Components
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Components define text or multimedia content:
- In the Content Manager Explorer, Components are displayed as forms with fields that you can fill in.
- In Experience Manager, Components are displayed within a Page.
- Pages
- Pages define Web content. When you have created Components, you need to add them to Pages and publish these Pages to a Web site.
- BluePrinting
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A BluePrint is a hierarchy of Publications in which Parent Publications share content with Child Publications. BluePrinting enables you to reuse structure, content, and design between Publications. The BluePrint Viewer provides a visualization of the Parent-Child relationships for an item within a BluePrint: