Site building
With HCL Digital Experience (DX), you can combine applications, content, and assets into websites. You can use personalization and role based access control to ensure that your users receive an experience that is tailored to their needs and to your organization's security policies.
Site building and editing
HCL DX provides a flexible set of tools for building and managing websites on the platform. You can host multiple sites on a single deployment, differentiated by either host name or path. Applications, content, and assets can be shared between those sites.
The Site Toolbar and Site Manager provide quick access to common content authoring tools and to a complete view of the site’s navigation. Without leaving the context of the website, content authors can create and modify pages and content items, create vanity URLs for promotions, auto-retrieve and adjust SEO tags, and more. By using the Site Toolbar, content authors and site designers use drag-and-drop simplicity to design, preview and publish multichannel digital experience sites.
From the Site Manager, you can access a customization shelf that contains applications and content that you can add to the page and access to configuration options. The same interface provides access to workflow and project capabilities.
With the in-line editor, site designers and marketing managers can select content targeting services to choose target segments for digital site delivery. For example, a marketing manager can view data that is based on a site-user's mobile device, geo-location, search terms, interaction patterns, and more to better engage audiences with relevant and timely information for improved results.
With the Site Builder tool, users can create site templates that they can use to accelerate the creation of new sites. This tools walks business users through the process of creating and defining their digital site properties, enabling them to quickly create new sites, and add sections by using predefined site and section templates.
Branding and customization
Your team can control site-branding and customization in the Site Manager. With DX flexible framework, developers can create custom branding, page templates, content-layout templates, and custom extensions by creating custom "themes."
The supplied theme template makes facilitates modifing the theme through WebDAV, allowing developers to update the theme from their familiar tools and using commonly available HTML5 and CSS3 skills. The theme is built on a modular architecture, and site designers can create themes by using different module extensions to contribute to different areas of the page.
With HCL DX, site designers can define profiles to control which modules get loaded. This control provides flexibility and performance, and at runtime, the platform automatically combines modules to minimize download sizes and optimize performance.
The platform’s included Theme Optimization Analyzer can create validation reports to analyze theme and theme components for known issues and reports the number of errors, warnings and informational messages. It also provides guidance to resolve errors that occur.
Mobile and Omnichannel access
HCL DX provides a wide range of mobile and omnichannel capabilities.
The following image shows how you can choose different paths depending on the requirements for a given site.
The platform provides mobile-enabled themes, enabling site designers to deliver mobile-ready, responsive sites.
HCL DX has built-in device detection capability designed to recognize mobile devices and adapt to layout presentation requirements for optimal rendering. The device classes included with the product define common properties for the device of a mobile client and can be updated as need. Device detection works with the modular theme framework to dynamically ensure that only relevant theme modules are delivered to mobile devices, optimizing download size.
Mobile preview is built in and provides a real-time preview of HCL DX sites on a variety of mobile devices.
For more information, see Mobile.