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Introduction to Force.com Sites Beginning Developers Josh Birk: salesforce.com John Hayes: Luminosity Group Richard Summerhayes: Luminosity Group

Introduction to Force.com Sites

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Force.com sites lets you build and deploy public Web sites and Web applications using Force.com. These Web sites can be assigned domain names so you can run your own Web sites on the Force.com platform. This session covers how to create a public Web site, building on Force.com pages (Visualforce) for the presentation layer. We'll also look at page caching, security, and user authentication.

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Introduction to Force.com SitesBeginning Developers

Josh Birk: salesforce.comJohn Hayes: Luminosity GroupRichard Summerhayes: Luminosity Group

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Safe HarborSafe harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including any projections of subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services.

The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, the outcome of intellectual property and other litigation, risks associated with possible mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com products, and utilization and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of salesforce.com, inc. is included in our annual report on Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal year ended January 31, 2010. This documents and others are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of our Web site.

Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com, inc. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

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Post Questions To Chatter

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Soon You’ll Know How To:

Enable Sites

Create content

Organize content

Admin security

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Fastest Way to Build Apps

Build App

Buy Servers

Build Datacente

r

Build Security

Build Analytics

Build Search

Build Workflo

w

Build Sharing

Deploy Mobile

Globalize

Build App

time

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GeneralAvailability

Rapid Adoption

576 Million + Page views

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315

392

490

576

Q1-09 Q2-09 Q3-09 Q4-09 Q1-10 Q2-10 Q3-10 Q4-10 (YTD)

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Creating Your First Site

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Creating Your First Site

Register a domain

Activate your Site

Add a custom home page

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Components And Templates

Using Components

Page 1

Component A

Page 2

Component A

Using Templates

Template A

Page 1

Template A

Page 2

<c:componentname>

<apex:composition template=“mytemplate”>

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Templates And Components

Standard Visualforce feature

Enables content reuse

Applies consistent look and feel

Speeds page creation

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Security Model

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Security Model

Uses standard security– FLS

– CRUD

– Visualforce/Apex

Guest profile is site specific

Best practice: minimal access

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John HayesRichard Summerhayes

Luminosity Group

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All About Luminosity Group

Luminosity Group is an interactive design & development agency. We blend user experience design with Visualforce and Apex coding to create dynamic Sites that keep audience engagement high and total cost of ownership low.

• User experience design • Data integration via custom Apex controllers• jQuery, XHTML, Flash, and advanced CSS development• Search Engine Optimization tailored for Force.com Sites

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Cache

Visualforce pages

Static Resources

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Content Delivery Network

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Portal Integration

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The Sites Toolbox

Instantly Set Up Dev Environments

Everything You Need to Build Apps

Easy to Collaborate on Projects

Eclipse Force.com IDE

Force.com Code Share

Force.com Sandbox

Easy Access to Codeand Schema

Metadata API

Learn more about Force.com platform at www.salesforce.com/platform

Find in-depth developer resources at http://developer.force.com

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What Kind Of Site Will You Build?

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Force.com Sites Gallery

http://developer.force.com/sitesgallery

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Next Steps

Join Developer.force.com– Wiki

– Forums

– Blogs

Collaborate! Chatter this session

Visit the Dev Zone

Attend other sessions– Building Applications With jQuery

– Advanced Force.com Sites

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Introduction to Force.com Sites

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