Summary

In this chapter, you’ve seen some of the ways Visualforce can produce effective user interfaces, from action components that provide Ajax behavior to the integration of open source Web application technologies such as JQuery. Before switching gears in the next chapter, take a moment to review these key points:

Stick with standard and custom Visualforce components wherever possible to keep your user interface running smoothly with the rest of Force.com today and in future releases.

Strive to adopt the many features of Visualforce that foster modularity, such as composition and custom components, rather than copying and pasting code from page to page.

You can use Visualforce to create public-facing Web pages through Force.com Sites. Sites are simply a series of configuration settings that enable a guest profile to access a set of pages, extending your existing investment in Visualforce.