Salesforce App Developer Guide

Introduction
About This Book
Setting Up Your Work Environment
Salesforce App Administration
Developing for the Salesforce App
Welcome to Salesforce Platform Development
Designing Mobile-First User Interfaces
Extending the Salesforce App with Visualforce Pages
Adding Functionality with Visualforce Custom Actions
Development Guidelines and Best Practices
When to Use the Navigation Menu or the Action Bar
Guidelines and Best Practices
Sharing Visualforce Pages Between Mobile and Desktop
Excluding Visualforce Pages from Mobile or Desktop
Choosing an Architecture for Visualforce Pages in the Salesforce App
Standard Visualforce Pages
Mixed Visualforce and HTML
JavaScript Remoting and Static HTML
Visualforce Components and Features to Avoid in the Salesforce App
Choosing an Effective Page Layout
User Input and Interaction
Managing Navigation
Using Visualforce Pages as Custom Actions
Creating Visualforce Pages That Work in Mobile and Desktop
Performance Tuning for Visualforce Pages
Canvas Guidelines and Best Practices
Learning More
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Choosing an Architecture for Visualforce Pages in the Salesforce App

There are several ways to design and structure Visualforce pages, each with different trade-offs with respect to development time, developer skill required, and how thoroughly you want your custom functionality to match the Salesforce app.
Use one of the following approaches for the structure of your pages: