Content and Experience Files

Author-it Website Manager separates content (published from Author-it) from files used to create the look and feel of the end-user experience -- templates, cascading style sheets, etc. By making this separation, you have the ability to deliver content in a variety of end user experiences.

Before defining the website in Author-it Website Manager you must create the following folders on the webserver to hold your content and experience files.

• Language folder - a language sub folder is created in the Content folder and named using the language code (for example, English = en, French = fr, German = de). Content published from Author-it (including the text files, image files used by the topics, and Author-it Website Manager XML sitemap file) is copied to this folder.
• Experience folder - a sub folder for each end-user experience is created in the Experience folder. These folders contain the templates, css files and images used to create the look and feel of the experience. The folder will usually be named after the experience, although you can use any meaningful name. Use underscores instead of spaces in the folder name.

The following topics discuss the folders and files used to create the website.