Site.com

Note If you’re a new customer who wants to create a site, portal, or community, Communities are a great way to share information and collaborate with people outside your company, such as customers, partners, or employees. See Experience Cloud to learn more.

From the Site.com tab in the Site.com app, you can launch Site.com Studio, which provides a separate, dedicated environment for creating and editing pixel-perfect, custom websites. Site administrators and designers can create and style web pages, and add features such as navigation menus, images, and text areas using drag-and-drop page elements, while ensuring the site's pages match the look and feel of the company's brand. And content contributors, such as marketing users, can browse and update website content directly in a simplified Site.com Studio environment. Additionally, websites built with Site.com benefit from running on Salesforce’s trusted global infrastructure.

Note The features available in Site.com Studio vary depending on whether you're a site administrator, designer, or contributor.

These examples illustrate a few ways to use Site.com:

• Create an event site—Advertise upcoming events, such as grand openings, launches, or sales kick-offs on a public event site.
• Promote new products—Launch new products into the market with a promotional website that helps drive sales.
• Publish a support FAQ—Provide helpful information on a public website where customers can view solutions to their issues.
• Create microsites and landing pages—Create temporary landing pages or targeted microsites for marketing campaigns.
• Create a recruiting website—Post job openings to a public site and allow visitors to submit applications and resumes.
• Publish a catalog of products—List all of your company's products on a public website, with model numbers and current prices pulled dynamically from your organization.
• Post company press releases—Publish your company's press releases and sort by publication date.

• About Site.com Feature Licenses
  To access Site.com, each user in your organization must have a Site.com feature license.
• Plan and Implement a Site.com Website
  There are many approaches to building a website. The process that best suits your needs depends on many factors, such as the size of your team and the tasks you're responsible for. If you're a site administrator or designer, you’re involved in every stage, including adding and maintaining the site's content. Alternatively, you can have contributors who add, edit, and maintain this content. And if you're a contributor, you can be responsible for editing and updating all of the site's content, or you can work with other contributors, designers, and site administrators to bring the site to completion. There are various stages involved in creating a site with Site.com.
• Create a Site.com Community
  Each community has one associated Site.com site that lets you add custom, branded pages to your community. By default, Site.com pages are publicly available and don’t require login, but you can also create private pages that only community members can access.
• Create a Site.com Site
  To get started with Site.com, create a new blank site.
• Import and Manage Assets
  Contributors, publishers, and site administrators can import a variety of assets, such as images, HTML pages, and PDFs, to use in a website. You can import assets and files individually, or use a zipped file. When importing entire websites or large numbers of assets, it’s easier to create a zipped file of the content with the desired folder structure. When importing the zipped file for a website, Site.com recreates your website and places everything in the same folder structure.
• Edit Site.com Pages as a Designer or Site Administrator
  When working with page templates and site pages, you can add content, structure, and style, all in one place.
• Site.com Page Elements
  Page elements are the building blocks of your site pages and page templates. Combined, they provide the page's structure and content.
• Set Up the Contributor’s Studio View
  Control what your contributors can do in Site.com Studio.
• Cascading Style Sheets Overview
  Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) provide a flexible way to add style to the pages of your website. This collection of formatting rules governs the appearance of your pages, and lets you define the fonts, colors, layout, and other presentation features.
• Site Branding Overview
  Branding provides a flexible way for you to define different aspects of your website's brand. Once branding properties are defined, your editors can easily customize everything in one centralized place, the Branding Editor. When your website editors customize the properties, they get a preview of their branding changes immediately.
• Custom Site Properties Overview
  With custom site properties, you can define and store frequently occurring content on your site. For example, you can store your address and phone number as a custom property so that it can be reused by anyone who is editing your site. You can apply stored properties to pages, headers and footers, and widgets quickly by using expression language syntax.
• Site.com Data Services Overview
  Site.com data services combine many features that let you connect to standard and custom Salesforce objects. Retrieve data from your organization's objects and dynamically display it on your site pages, or alternatively, gather and submit data from your customers. And when you update data in your Salesforce object, the changes are reflected automatically on the live site—no site updates required!
• Widgets Overview
  Widgets let you save time by building custom page elements that you and your team can reuse throughout the site.
• Multilingual Sites Overview
  Site.com Studio lets you to create different language versions of your site. And because all languages are maintained within the site, you don't need to create and manage a separate site for each language.
• Content Lists and Categories Overview
  Content lists let you create and store content items to use in your site, such as press releases, blog posts, and news articles. Categories let you create groups of terms to classify the items in your content lists.
• Events Overview
  Events enable you to add interactive and animated effects to the pages and page elements of your website.
• The Contributor's Page Editing View
  Use the Overview tab to import assets, preview the page, and update the appearance of the page.
• Preview How Pages Appear on Mobile Devices
  With live mode, site administrators, designers, and contributors can preview how pages and templates appear on devices such as mobile phones and tablets.
• Preview Site.com Sites
  Contributors, designers, and site administrators can preview site pages to see how they look when rendered in a browser window. It's always a good idea to make sure your changes are displayed correctly, as this preview is how the pages appear on the live site.
• Site.comIP Restrictions Overview
  Every computer has a unique IP address that it uses to identify itself. Using IP restrictions, you can define a range of permitted IP addresses for the pages, folders, and assets in your site to control visitors' access.
• Manage Domains in Site.com
  Before you can publish your site to the Internet, you must set the site's domain information.