--- schema_version: "1" id: 863a2dcf23f5e4b402b2253e2452bf08c392bdf0d31c8874cc86dd6b59ec5acb title: Site.com collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/platform/264-0-0/siteforce_overview.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: 69edeeb09dad57be714669117ed1241bdf6de3f45198082fe025073a3eca3100 description: Site.com is a web content management system (CMS) that makes it easy to build dynamic, data-driven web pages quickly, edit content in real time, and manage your websites. products: - Salesforce Platform - Security release: "264" --- # Site.com Site.com is a web content management system (CMS) that makes it easy to build dynamic, data-driven web pages quickly, edit content in real time, and manage your websites. ### Required Editions
Available in: Salesforce Classic

Available for purchase in: Enterprise, Performance, and Unlimited Editions

Available (with limitations) in: Developer Edition

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-extend_click-264-0-0-production-enus/5f7d9219-b7b1-4552-8891-f1aba9b289fc/images/icon_note.png) 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_overview.htm&type=5&language=en_US) to learn more. From the [Site.com tab](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_hometab.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "If you can't see the Site.com tab, go to the Site.com app. It's available in the Lightning Platform app menu in the Salesforce header. Then click the Site.com tab to view the list of your Site.com sites.") 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](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-extend_click-264-0-0-production-enus/5f7d9219-b7b1-4552-8891-f1aba9b289fc/images/icon_note.png) Note The features available in Site.com Studio vary depending on whether you're a [site administrator, designer, or contributor](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_features.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 ">Site.com Studio features vary depending on feature license, user role, and permissions."). 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. ## System Requirements To use Site.com Studio, we recommend: - Mozilla® Firefox® or Google® Chrome for best performance. ![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-extend_click-264-0-0-production-enus/5f7d9219-b7b1-4552-8891-f1aba9b289fc/images/icon_note.png) Note Microsoft® Edge is supported, but it is strongly recommended that you do not use Internet Explorer®. - Disabling the Firebug extension for Firefox, if installed, as it can impact performance. - A minimum browser resolution of 1024x768. - **[About Site.com Feature Licenses](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_perm_license_about.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** To access Site.com, each user in your organization must have a Site.com feature license. - **[Plan and Implement a Site.com Website](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_workflow.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_communities_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_website_create.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** To get started with Site.com, create a new blank site. - **[Import and Manage Assets](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_assets_import.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_page_edit.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** When working with page templates and site pages, you can add content, structure, and style, all in one place. - **[Site.com Page Elements](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_objects.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_contrib_view.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Control what your contributors can do in Site.com Studio. - **[Cascading Style Sheets Overview](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_style_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_prop_brand_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_prop_custom_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_data_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_widget_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Widgets let you save time by building custom page elements that you and your team can reuse throughout the site. - **[Multilingual Sites Overview](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_languages_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_content_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_events_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Events enable you to add interactive and animated effects to the pages and page elements of your website. - **[The Contributor's Page Editing View](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_editor_page_edit.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Use the Overview tab to import assets, preview the page, and update the appearance of the page. - **[Preview How Pages Appear on Mobile Devices](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_contentblock_livemode.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_preview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_ip_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_domains_map.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Before you can publish your site to the Internet, you must set the site's domain information. #### See Also - [Set Up Site.com Users](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_admin_setup.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Before users can access Site.com, you must allocate a Site.com feature license to each user and assign a user role at the site level. The features available when editing a site in Site.com Studio vary depending on these settings.") - [Plan and Implement a Site.com Website](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_workflow.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "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.") - [Using Site.com Studio as a Site Administrator or Designer](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_overview_studio.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Site.com Studio provides a dedicated site-building environment for site administrators and designers.") - [Using Site.com Studio as a Contributor](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_editor_overview_studio.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Site.com Studio provides a dedicated content-editing environment for contributors.")