First Steps for Authors

Last update: April 11, 2024

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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.

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.

Before editing, you need to create a page.

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

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

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.

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.

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

To make previously published (or activated) content unavailable on your public website, you unpublish (or deactivate) the page.

If a page is no longer needed you might want to delete the page.

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 and then revert to a version if necessary.

Access to more information about authoring can be found under Page Authoring.

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