First Steps for Authors 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:
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Getting Started - Detailing the basic sequence of events you need for creating and publishing your first page.
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Further Actions - Following on with the many other actions you can use when authoring.
Overview overview
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.
Getting Started getting-started
These detail the basic sequence of events you need for creating and publishing your first page.
Navigating to the Page Location navigating-to-the-page-location
The content in your website is held in a tree-structure. To create or edit a page you need to navigate to the location.
Creating a New Page creating-a-new-page
Before editing, you need to create a new page.
Opening a Page opening-a-page
For many actions, such as editing, you need to open a page.
Editing a Page editing-a-page
Whether your instance already has existing pages or you have just created a new page yourself you can edit a page by:
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Edit/Configure/Copy/Cut/Delete/Paste a Component
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Using Preview Mode (to see how it will look when published)
Publishing a Page publishing-a-page
Once you have finished editing your page you will want to publish (or activate) your page so that it is available to visitors to your website.
Further Actions further-actions
After the basic steps there are many other actions you can use when authoring.
Copying a Page copying-a-page
It is sometimes easier to copy a page and re-use the content rather than creating everything from scratch again.
Moving or Renaming a Page moving-or-renaming-a-page
Moving and renaming pages is basically done with the same action.
Unpublishing a Page unpublishing-a-page
To make previously published (or activated) content unavailable on your public website, you unpublish (or deactivate) the page.
Deleting a Page deleting-a-page
If a page is no longer needed you might want to delete the page.
Setting the Page Properties setting-the-page-properties
Every page has properties that you can define to determine aspects of its operation. These can be updated with either UI.
Creating a Version of a Page creating-a-version-of-a-page
You can create a version of a page and then revert to a version if necessary.
More Information more-information
Access to more information about authoring can be found under Page Authoring and Working with the Author Environment.