An interesting content management solution that stands out, in the large market we have today, is the Adobe Experience Management Suite. It has a large assortment of great tools, and an interface that is really simple, so anyone can work with it, doesn't matter what kind of work they might be doing. In order for you to dive into this great system and get started on your work, we have written this guide where we will go over some of the features this program offers, and we will mention a few tips and tricks to get you going.
Basics
From the start, we should mention that the Adobe Experience Manager or AEM for short, is a complex tool that can be used in a lot of scenarios. You should know that no matter how many guides that simplify the system you read, you won't be able to do the professional work that some people would like. The best option is to read the guides, and then sit down and try out the features so that you can better understand them before you get to do some serious work.
The key feature that you must know about AEM is that it consists of two instances, Author and Publish, that means that when your content is ready, it will be transitioned to the Publish version, to say it in simpler words, that means that the website will be transitioned to be seen by all of the consumers.
Creating the Pages
This is basically the first thing you will do before anything else, it consists of adding a new page, and then you must choose the template for it, plus add all of the smaller details such as the name, the title, and a description.
From this point, content and components can be added by the author. Some will be predetermined by the template.
After that, you will fix and add content with Adobe Experience Manager until the author is satisfied.
Picking the Template
The template will dictate which parts you will be able to edit, so you must coordinate with your client in order to meet their needs and desires. There must be a middle ground achieved with flexibility and design so that the page will run without any problems.
Picking the Design
Adobe Experience Manager has no platform restrictions, which means that you are given complete freedom of design, however, this doesn't mean that you should just add features that are unnecessary. Doing this will create a lot of downsides for the users.
By the author having a few restrictions it is less likely for them to go overboard and the risk of them crashing the page will be minimized.
