When you goto /damadmin and select an asset to move, it shows all the references of that asset in the dialog and ask if it has to be adjusted for the new link and it would take care by itselfSo, you can use the 'move' option in damadmin

1. As @kautuksahni mentioned wcmmode=disabled will hide all the authoring panels which looks close to publish instance.2. 'URL Mappings' in Sling Resource Resolver configuration can be used to map or change your application URL ex: if you want to remove /content/abc/en/ to / , you can configure as /...

As @edubey mentioned, contributors would be the right group to begin with. Then you can add/delete the permissions according to your requirement. Hope that helps !

As Kunal mentioned, you can use dispatcher 4.1.11 and above to configure the dispatcher to pull all the vanity URLs. If you want to push the same for the Akamai, then you may have to write a simple service to make an Akamai webservice call and push the same.

Hi Praveen,You can use ClientContext (Classic UI) or Context Hub (Touch UI) and see whether the segment is resolved or not.Thats gives little more information to see if John has any other segments resolved

Can you post your components content.xml ?

If CSS isnt a case, then I would agree with @kunal123.with SPA, though the pages are included as partials, each partials are a different page w.r.t AEM and Authors have to change author the content at the partial level while then can preview as SPA once done. 

One of your css is conflicting with the CQ clientlibs. Just do the browser debug and you should be able to find the culprit !

There are multiple ways to handle the same like you can manage by creating a sessionId or cookie when user is authenticated. check for the same in all the pages and get the details.However, AEM should be used mainly as stateless application. You can manage the sessions and order management in an ext...

Thanks @scott - that would help. I have done that and it works ! But can you check with them why do we have to do ? As it jsp has to be compiled every time you start an instance.