Delivering web content

The type of delivery method you use to deliver web content to your viewers will depend on the type of content being delivered, and the type of viewers your website is intended for.

Accessing web content via a servlet
Users can access content displayed via the Web Content Manager servlet by connecting to a URL. A servlet delivered website should be used when you don't need to use any WebSphere® Portal based features such as authoring tools.
Delivering web content on a portal page
Using tools like web content viewer portlets, content associations, and web content page templates, you can build portal pages and display web content. You can also combine web content with other portlet-based content. Content associations tie viewers and portal pages to the site structure of your web content libraries.
Pre-rendered delivery
You can pre-render a complete IBM® Web Content Manager site into HTML and save it to disk. The pre-rendered site can then be used as your live site and displayed to end users using either Web Content Manager or a web server. You deploy a pre-rendered site when you are not using any WebSphere Portal features and your content is static and is only updated periodically.