First Steps for Authors

This section gives you an overview of the main tasks that you will be using when starting to author content with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).

It covers:

• Getting Started
  Detailing the basic sequence of events you need for creating and publishing your first page.
  
• Further Actions
  Following on with the many other actions you can use when authoring.

AEM has two user interfaces:

• Touch-optimized UI (the consoles are predominantly grey)
• Classic UI (the consoles are predominantly green)

This slideshow (click-through) gives a quick visual overview of using AEM to author your first page. Links to details about the individual steps involved are then provided under Getting Started.

These detail the basic sequence of events you need for creating and publishing your first page.

The content in your website is held in a tree-structure. To create or edit a page you need to navigate to the location:

• With the Touch-Optimized UI
• With the Classic UI

Before editing, you need to create a new page:

• With the Touch-optimized UI
• With the Classic UI

For many actions, such as editing, you need to open a page:

• With the Touch-optimized UI
• With the Classic UI

Whether your instance already has existing pages or you have just created a new page yourself you can edit a page using either:

• Touch-optimized UI
  
  • Inserting a Component (Paragraph)
  • Edit/Configure/Copy/Cut/Delete/Paste a Component
  • Edit (Content)
  • Edit (Content) - Full Screen Mode
    
  • Undoing and Redoing Page Edits
  • Using Preview Mode (to see how it will look when published)
  • Locking a Page
• Classic UI
  
  • Inserting a Component (Paragraph)
  • Editing a Component
  • Moving a Component
  • Deleting a Component
  • Cut/Copy/Paste a Component
  • Undoing and Redoing Page Edits
  • Using Preview Mode (to see how it will look when published)
  • Locking a Page
  • Unlocking a Page

Once you have finished editing your page you will want to publish (or activate) your content so that it is available to visitors on your website:

• With the Touch-optimized UI
• With the Classic UI

After the basic steps there are many other actions you can use when authoring.

It is sometimes easier to copy a page and re-use the content rather than creating everything from scratch again:

• With the Touch-optimized UI
• With the Classic UI

Moving and renaming pages is basically done with the same action:

• With the Touch-optimized UI
• With the Classic UI

To remove the content from your public website you deactivate or unpublish the page:

• With the Touch-optimized UI
• With the Classic UI

If a page is no longer needed you might want to delete it:

• With the Touch-optimized UI
• With the Classic UI

Every page has properties that you can define to determine aspects of its operation. These can be updated with either UI.

You can create a version of a page, then revert to that if necessary:

• With the Touch-optimized UI
• With the Classic UI

Access to more information about authoring can be found under Page Authoring and Working with the Author Environment.