Understand and Know the steps to create Site & Site Area in Lotus Web Content Management!!

A Site Framework reflects the structure of your website. It provides you complete information about your website's navigation, menu components and the complete structure. The Site framework consists of Site and Site Areas where Site is the parent for Site Area.

Site : A site consist of several site areas. Hence it is the parent for the site area. You can manage several sites in Web Content Management with one site equals to one WebSite. The Site also define relationships between authoring and presentation template.

Site Area : A site area is the place where contents are grouped together. For every site area we need to define a default content which will be viewed when the page is open. If no default content is mapped the browser will not be able to open that page.

Below are the steps to create a Site:

• Click on New and Select Site
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• Fill the required Site name as Portal School, description and then click on save.
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Now in order to create Site Area follow below steps

• Click on New button
• Select Site Area ( same way the Site was selected)
• It will show the list of all available Sites. Select Portal School as the Parent Site for this Site Area.
• Click OK
• In name field enter Lotus Web Content Management
• In Display field also enter Lotus Web Content Management
• Give description as contains all information regarding lotus web content management.
• Check Type will be Site Area
• Click Save.
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By repeating above steps you can create as many site areas under site Portal School

You can see the newly created Site and Site Area under navigational hierarchy as shown below.


You can always change the position of Site Areas as and when required.