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Pre-rendering Introduction

Lotus Web Content Management (WCM) websites can be delivered in the following ways –
1. Through the Web Content Management servlet.
2. Through a local rendering portlet using the local portal server.
3. Through a remote rendering portlet located on a separate portal server.
4. Through a pre-rendered site using the local Web server.

The first three methods of delivering a WCM website is commonly known as dynamic rendering or dynamic delivery as these methods serve content directly from the WebSphere Portal server.

It is possible to take a snapshot of the entire website as static HTML files. This process is referred to as WCM pre-rendering and the static website generated is known as the pre-rendered website.

These static pre-rendered files can be delivered by the WCM server or by the HTTP web server. This improves the website delivery performance as the pages are not dynamically rendered on the fly.

For more information on pre-rendering, please see document - 5.2.3.1 Dynamic vs. Prerendering environment.