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Clarify the difference between Netlify.com and Netlify CMS (#1760)

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* **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

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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.
<div style="display: flex; justify-content: space-around; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.5em;">
<div style="flex-basis: 33.3%">