The short answer is "pretty much however you like". :wink:
The long answer is that Alfresco WCM is first and foremost a content management system, not a presentation layer management system (unlike other systems such as portal servers, Joomla / Drupal style CMS's, etc.). What this means is that you implement your web site in whatever technology you're most comfortable with (static HTML, JavaEE, .NET, Ruby on Rails, PHP, CGI-COBOL :wink
and then feed content to that web site in a format that it can digest. This might mean you're sending it HTML snippets that your web app code composites together to produce fully rendered pages, it might mean you're deploying content as structured data (XML, say, or COBOL fixed length records :wink that your web application transforms to HTML at request time, or (the typical case) some blend of these approaches.
The beauty of this model is that you're not locked into a single delivery side technology (as is the case with CMS's such as Vignette VCM, Joomla, Drupal, etc.) - you can use whichever technology is best suited for your situation, and simply use Alfresco to manage the lifecycle of the content that your web site delivers.
Cheers,
Peter
The long answer is that Alfresco WCM is first and foremost a content management system, not a presentation layer management system (unlike other systems such as portal servers, Joomla / Drupal style CMS's, etc.). What this means is that you implement your web site in whatever technology you're most comfortable with (static HTML, JavaEE, .NET, Ruby on Rails, PHP, CGI-COBOL :wink
and then feed content to that web site in a format that it can digest. This might mean you're sending it HTML snippets that your web app code composites together to produce fully rendered pages, it might mean you're deploying content as structured data (XML, say, or COBOL fixed length records :wink that your web application transforms to HTML at request time, or (the typical case) some blend of these approaches.The beauty of this model is that you're not locked into a single delivery side technology (as is the case with CMS's such as Vignette VCM, Joomla, Drupal, etc.) - you can use whichever technology is best suited for your situation, and simply use Alfresco to manage the lifecycle of the content that your web site delivers.
Cheers,
Peter
