Authoring Pages

The following provide two types of overview to authoring with AEM:

• First Steps for Authors - an introduction for new authors
  
• Quick Guide to Authoring Pages - a quick guide (high-level) to the main actions

To aid you when authoring pages the author environment provides features such as:

• Drag and drop
  Components (such as Text, Image) and digital assets (such as images) can be positioned on the page simply by dragging and dropping them in the desired location.
• Editing
  Once positioned on your page, a component-specific dialog can be opened to enter content and/or configure characteristics of that component (for example, image size).
  
• In-place Editing
  Text and Image components can be edited directly on the webpage without opening a dialog box or an explicit save action.
• Sidekick
  A floating "inspector" window that appears on the editable page. From here new components can be dragged onto the page and page-specific actions can be executed.
• Content Finder
  On the left side of each authorable page, the content finder provides quick access to a range of assets, including digital assets (such as other images, Flash elements and documents), other pages and paragraphs. These items can be dragged to the page; for example to position assets or create links to other pages.
• Context menu
  Right clicking on most onscreen elements (for example, paragraphs on the page) brings up a context menu with appropriate action options.
• Search as you type
  In certain scenarios (for example, path selection in edit dialogs) searching for content through the AEM interface presents dynamic matches as you type the query.