As part of Quick Site Creation use the Site Creation Wizard in Adobe Experience Manager, AEM, to generate a new website. The Standard Site Template provided by Adobe, is used as a starting point for the new site.
The steps in this chapter will take place in an Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service environment. Ensure that you have administrative access to the AEM environment. It is recommended to use a Sandbox program and Development environment when completing this tutorial.
Review the onboarding documentation for more details.
As a first step, log in to your AEM as a Cloud Service environment. AEM environments are split between an Author Service and a Publish Service.
A majority of the tutorial will take place using the Author Service.
Navigate to the Adobe Experience Cloud https://experience.adobe.com/. Log in using your Personal Account or a Company/School Account.
Ensure that the correct Organization is selected in menu and click Experience Manager.
Under Cloud Manager click Launch.
Hover over the Program you wish to use and click the Cloud Manager Program icon.
In the top menu click Environments to view the provisioned environments.
Find the environment you wish to use and click the Author URL.
It is recommended to use a Development environment for this tutorial.
A new tab is launched to the AEM Author Service. Click Sign in with Adobe and you should be logged in automatically with the same Experience Cloud credentials.
After being redirected and authenticated you should now see the AEM start screen.
Having trouble accessing Experience Manager? Review the onboarding documentation
A Site Template provides a starting point for a new site. A Site Template includes some basic theming, page templates, configurations and sample content. Exactly what is included in the Site Template is up to the developer. Adobe provides a Basic Site Template to accelerate new implementations.
Open a new browser tab and navigate to the Basic Site Template project on GitHub: https://github.com/adobe/aem-site-template-standard. The project is open-sourced and licensed to be used by anyone.
Click Releases and navigate to the latest release.
Expand the Assets dropdown and download the template zip file:
This zip file is used in the next exercise.
This tutorial is written using version 1.1.0 of the Basic Site Template. When starting a new project for production use, it is always recommended to use the latest version.
Next, generate a new site using the Site Template from the previous exercise.
Return to the AEM environment. From the AEM Start screen navigate to Sites.
In the upper right-hand corner click Create > Site (Template). This will bring up the Create Site Wizard.
Under Select a site template click the Import button.
Upload the .zip template file downloaded from the previous exercise.
Select the Basic AEM Site Template and click Next.
Under Site Details > Site title enter WKND Site
.
In a real-world implementation “WKND Site” would be replaced by the brand name of your company or organization. In this tutorial, we are simulating the creation of a site for a ficticious lifestyle brand “WKND”.
Under Site name enter wknd
.
If using a shared AEM environment, append a unique identifier to the Site Name. For example wknd-site-johndoe
. This will ensure that multiple users can complete the same tutorial, without any collisions.
Click Create to generate the Site. Click Done in the Success dialog when AEM has finished creating the web site.
Navigate to the AEM Sites console, if not already there.
A new WKND Site has been generated. It will include a site structure with a multi-lingual hierarchy.
Open the English > Home page by selecting the page and clicking the Edit button in the menu bar:
Starter content has already been created and several components are available to be added to a page. Experiment with these components to get an idea of the functionality. You will learn the basics of a component in the next chapter.
Sample content provided by the Site Template
Congratulations, you have just created your first AEM Site!
Use the Page editor in Adobe Experience Manager, AEM, to update content of the site in the Author content and publish chapter. Learn how atomic Components can be configured to update content. Understand the difference between an AEM Author and Publish environments and learn how to publish updates to the live site.