In previous chapters, you've been dealing strictly with documents and have been using Alfresco's web-based client to manage those files. Some of the files have been made available on SomeCo's web site, but the solution thus far has been about Document Management (DM), not Web Content Management (WCM).
WCM is a specialized subset of the larger Enterprise Content Management (ECM) umbrella that is focused specifically on authoring, managing, and publishing files used to produce a web site.
Alfresco's WCM solution is built on top of the core product. It adds the following functionality:
Web forms. Web forms (sometimes called "templating" in other WCM solutions) are used to enable content contribution from non-technical content authors. Rather than using specialized content authoring tools, content authors can log in to the Alfresco web client, and create and save content using a web form. The resulting data is stored as XML. The...