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Content items to create, combine and publish

You can create, combine and publish various types of content items to produce web content.

The following diagram shows the main Content Manager items you use to create and publish web content:

1. Create content (Components)
Creating the content that you want to display on a page on a website involves creating Components (text content) and Multimedia Components (other content types such as PDFs or images). You can also link to content that is stored and managed in an external content repositories.
Components and Multimedia Components are based on Schemas that define the content fields and optionally metadata fields.
If taxonomies are available, you can classify the Components with Keywords (from internal taxonomies) or Concepts (from external taxonomies).
You can organize Component content within Folders.
2. Assemble web content (Pages and Regions)
Assembling web content involves a first step of creating empty Pages where a Page Template defines the Regions on the Page. In a template-based publishing model, the Page Template normally includes Template Building Blocks that define branding and other design elements. In a data-only publishing model, selecting a Page Template is required although the Page Template itself is empty, that is, with no Template Building Blocks.
Now you can add the web content to the Page by adding Components (or Component Presentations) to the Page's predefined Regions (that are based on the Page Schema).
You can organize your Pages within Structure Groups.
3. Publish content
Publishing is the process of getting content out of the Content Manager where content is stored and on to the presentation environment where it is displayed to a website visitor. You publish content to a Target Type, which determines where and how content is Published. For example, organizations typically have the following Target Types:
  • a staging environment for internal review
  • a live environment for external consumption