diff --git a/website/content/docs/intro.md b/website/content/docs/intro.md index 11ad8ce8..5d9af202 100755 --- a/website/content/docs/intro.md +++ b/website/content/docs/intro.md @@ -15,6 +15,19 @@ At its core, Netlify CMS is an open-source React app that acts as a wrapper for * **Flexible content types:** Specify an unlimited number of content types with custom fields. * **Fully extensible:** Create custom-styled previews, UI widgets, and editor plugins. +## Netlify CMS vs. Netlify + +[Netlify.com](https://www.netlify.com/) is a platform you can use to automatically build, deploy, serve, and manage your frontend sites and web apps. It also provides a variety of other features like form processing, serverless functions, and split testing. Not all Netlify sites use Netlify CMS, and not all sites using Netlify CMS are on Netlify. + +The folks at Netlify created Netlify CMS to fill a gap in the static site generation pipeline. There were some great proprietary headless CMS options, but no real contenders that were open source and extensible—that could turn into a community-built ecosystem like WordPress or Drupal. For that reason, Netlify CMS is _made_ to be community-driven, and has never been locked to the Netlify platform (despite the name). + +With this in mind, you can: + +* Use Netlify CMS without Netlify and deploy your site where you always have, hooking up your own CI, site hosting, CDN, etc. +* Use Netlify without Netlify CMS and edit your static site in your code editor. +* Or, use them together and have a fully-working CMS-enabled site with [one click](../start-with-a-template/)! + +If you hook up Netlify CMS to your website, you're basically adding a tool for content editors to make commits to your site repository without touching code or learning Git. ## Find out more diff --git a/website/content/docs/start-with-a-template.md b/website/content/docs/start-with-a-template.md index 1a90ec45..baee7b37 100644 --- a/website/content/docs/start-with-a-template.md +++ b/website/content/docs/start-with-a-template.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Start with a Template group: start weight: 10 --- -You can add Netlify CMS [to an existing site](/docs/add-to-your-site/), but the quickest way to get started is with a template. Found below, our featured templates deploy to Netlify, giving you a fully working CMS-enabled site with just a few clicks. +You can add Netlify CMS [to an existing site](/docs/add-to-your-site/), but the quickest way to get started is with a template. Found below, our featured templates deploy a bare-bones site and Netlify CMS to Netlify ([what's the difference, you ask?](../intro/#netlify-cms-vs-netlify)), giving you a fully working CMS-enabled site with just a few clicks.