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

Quick Overview of Features Used for Authoring Pages

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.

• Component Browser
  On the left side of an editable page a sliding browser can be opened; from here components can be dragged onto the page and then edited.

• Asset Browser
  On the left side of an editable page a sliding browser can be opened; from here assets can be dragged onto the page; for example, to position assets or create links to other pages.

• Component Toolbar
  Both a single or a slow double-click/tap will reveal the appropriate toolbar (single for the inplace editing toolbar, then slow double for full toolbar).

• Responsive Layout
  This provides a paragraph system that lets you position components within a responsive grid.

• 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.