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 ...

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