We're all in agreement that it's a terrible practice, but as I said in the original post, it is a MANDATE. I've spent a lot of time explaining to management that it isn't a best practice and goes against the conventions of what I've seen, but I don't yet have the experience to lay out any major prob...

How would I design Header and Footer components that use the drag and drop features of AEM, yet are smart enough to know to position themselves at the top or bottom of the page etc.? It seems that the typical convention is to simply design a content page and then include the header.jp, body.jp, foot...

Thanks again. I'll definitely put it under /etc/designs instead of directly off of the component folder hierarchy, (even though that's what most of the http://helpx.adobe.com tutorials tell you to do).

Thanks so much for the prompt reply gentlemen! I'm guessing that it really doesn't matter where I locate it in the component node hierarchy either, correct? Even so, please share what the defacto standard is for both the name, and where it's located so that I can follow the established norm.

joe_s66, you should try blowing away the current install, and re-installing the plugins. If necessary, even re-install Brackets. In my limited experience, almost none of the plugins or extensions for Brackets, Eclipse etc. work right off, even when you follow the precise documentation available on t...

or, whether I locate them at the same level as the custom component, or nest them beneath the component etc., what is the "defacto standard" for experienced AEM developers? When I look throughout the JCR at the existing AEM components, (i.e. those that come with AEM out of the box), I see folders so...

There is a "-nofork option that you may want to explore, (in the original start up scripts in the .../author/crx-quickstart/bin directory). If you use it, you'll probably need to use the -Xmx2048m option as well and be sure to give it enough memory/RAM. I believe one of the primary reasons the proce...

Thanks Kautuk, but the first link does not work. He's telling you how to use the built-in generic snippet cloud service to enter the Google Tag Manager snippet, but that does not work in 5.6.1. In the second link, he's telling you how to use the integration that I mentioned from CityTech above, (and...

I can't get Google Tag Manager to work using the "Generic Analytics Snippet" under the AEM "Cloud Services Configurations" I can enter the typical Google Analytics code snippet, and get it to work on AEM pages, but when I replace the GA Tag snippet, with the GTM code snippet, it doesn't show up the ...

Peter, thank you SO much. This is an extremely complete response, and even though I'm a beginner, I should be able to follow this. Again, thanks for the great answer and I hope I can quickly get to the point of helping others in the same manner .