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Andrew Fawcett
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Andrew Fawcett has over 30 years of experience holding several software development-related roles with a focus around enterprise-level product architecture. He is experienced in managing all aspects of the software development life cycle across various technology platforms, frameworks, industry design patterns, and methodologies. He is currently a VP, Product Management, and a Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II at Salesforce. He is responsible for several key platform features and emergent products for Salesforce. He is an avid blogger, open source contributor and project owner, and an experienced speaker. He loves watching movies, Formula 1 motor racing, and building Lego!
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Creating websites and communities


Salesforce provides the following two ways to create public-facing web content:

  • Force.com: This offers a means to create public-facing authenticated or public websites using Visualforce pages. Due to this, it can access Standard and Custom objects using the approaches described in this chapter, reusing components and services from your application as needed. The Force.com site configurations cannot be packaged, though the pages and controllers you create to support them can be. This feature is available in the Enterprise and Developer Edition orgs. It is possible to use Lightning Components via Lightning Out for Visualforce pages.

  • Sites.com: This is a declarative website product that is targeted at nontechnical users. Visualforce pages cannot be used directly with Site.com though components available with Site.com can access your application's Custom Objects and as such will invoke your Apex Trigger and thus Domain logic code. It is possible to use Lightning...

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Andrew Fawcett

Andrew Fawcett has over 30 years of experience holding several software development-related roles with a focus around enterprise-level product architecture. He is experienced in managing all aspects of the software development life cycle across various technology platforms, frameworks, industry design patterns, and methodologies. He is currently a VP, Product Management, and a Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II at Salesforce. He is responsible for several key platform features and emergent products for Salesforce. He is an avid blogger, open source contributor and project owner, and an experienced speaker. He loves watching movies, Formula 1 motor racing, and building Lego!
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