I have recently gone through site.com and understand a few steps of creating websites. Now my question is: How is site.com different from a force.com site in end user perspective?
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Force.com Sites:
- Force.com sites supports both authenticated and public websites (i.e. the legacy portal products).
- Included in all Enterprise Edition (or above) and Developer orgs.
- Support for custom pages using Visualforce, JavaScript, CSS.
- Main target audience is for users that are developers familiar with the above languages.
- Can access all Force.com objects.
- A full review of the product is available on this page.
Site.com:
- Formerly called “Siteforce”.
- Is a provisioned (paid-for) product.
- Site.com is meant for non-technical administrators as there is no coding necessary.
- Drag n drop support for CMS.
- Allows custom coding using HTML, CSS, Javascript.
- Includes a security model of who can contribute to and publish sites.
- Chatter supported for contribution of content while chatter is not available on the front end website.
- A full review of the product is available on this page.
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Source : Link , Question Author : Shebin Mathew , Answer Author : Matt and Neil