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v The authoring system is used to create and manage the items used to build your website.
v The delivery system is used to deliver your website.
In this course you will use a single server acting as both the authoring system and the delivery system.
The authoring system
In addition to building a website, you will also be responsible for building the authoring system that
your content creators will use to add and update the content on the website. There are three types of
authoring systems:
The authoring portlet
Content creators, like other users, can be given access to the authoring portlet where they can
create and update the content items, and possibly other item types, to which they have access.
This is the easiest way to give your content creators access to create and update web content
items.
Inline editing
Inline editing of content items can be enabled using authoring tool components. This is most
commonly used with portlet-delivered intranets, but can only be used with content items.
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Custom authoring interfaces
You can also build your own custom authoring interfaces using "remote actions" and the product
API. This is more time-consuming than the other authoring systems, but it allows you add more
targeted content authoring function for your content creators.
The common goal of all these authoring systems is to make the process of authoring content as simple
and easy as possible. A successful authoring system simplifies the process of authoring content so that
your content creators only need to focus on the content of your site, not the design and layout of your
site.
4 IBM Web Content Manager: Developing Websites Using IBM Web Content Manager 7 (Student Guide)