Understanding FatWire architecture is the main purpose of this lesson.
FatWire is a content centric CMS, so in FatWire everything is considered content, or specifically to FatWire content is referred to as an asset. From this point forward anything created in FatWire or for FatWire will be referred to as an asset. Assets are defined in the next lesson FatWire Lesson 2: What is an Asset. FatWire is broken into two parts: Staging and Production.
Staging
This is the development environment, it is here that content is created or uploaded. It is from the staging environment that the FatWire site(s) are managed. There are three basic types of users of the staging environment: webmasters, content contributors and developers. Each of these has there own interface and controls. These interfaces and controls will be covered in a later lesson.
Production
This is where content is published to. Once on production it has been approved and is available for the site visitors to see.
