To hide the design button simply "deny" (uncheck) the modify permission for the particular user or group.

I am tracking down CQ Eng to help you. 

content packages are zipped XML files ...Jörg

Another update. I marked Bruce's answer as correct. new code: Page page = (Page)request.getAttribute("page");Thanks Bruce!

Bruce Lefebvre wrote...I may have misunderstood, but you can always point directly to http://localhost:4502/projects.htmlAuthors can bring up the new touch page editor manually by swapping 'cf#' for 'editor.html' in the URL. For example:Classic: http://localhost:4502/cf#/content/geometrixx-outdoors/en.htmlTouch: http://localhost:4502/editor.html/content/geometrixx-outdoors/en.html I was thinking more a UI artifiact some where in the classic UI that took you over to the touch UI something like th...

The reason I need to do it this way is because my boss wants users to be able to edit the content of the pages and also add new pages without using the AEM or CRXDE. I do not know why he wants it this way, but that is what he requested.

Worked like magic! Thanks mate.

If you want to drag from sidekick - you can place components based on JQuery in the sidekick on them - however - the article that i referenced - the start zone was also on the page - not the sidekick.

No worries, I ran into this issue myself.

I would say that it's basically up to the team what they prefer.You can also check out http://masonry.desandro.com/ if you haven't already done so if you are into thethe whole "placing things in an optimal way" (when it comes to the available space in the browser). Of course things can be a bit messy using these libraries and might not suite all sites.Especially if you want to have more control over how the site would look and behave in the different device-widths.Then a more strict library like...