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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 now recommends that Lightning Communities is used to create websites for your users, customers, and partners. This feature is based on Lightning Components and uses Lightning Community Builder to allow you to leverage templates that you can customize with standard Lightning Components or customer components you build.

Historically, Salesforce provided the following two ways to create public-facing web content, which are still available for existing customers, although Lightning Communities should be seen as the successor to these capabilities:

  • Force.com Sites: 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...
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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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