Authoring

AEM provides you with two environments:

• Author
• Publish

To make your visitors to read content on your website, you should interact with these two environments.

The author environment provides the mechanisms for creating, updating and reviewing this content before actually publishing it:

• An author creates and reviews the content (this can be of several types; for example, pages, assets, publications, etc)
• which will, at some point, be published to your website.

Author Environment

The author works in what is known as the author environment. This provides an easy to use interface (graphical user interface (GUI or UI)) for creating the content. It is usually located behind a company’s firewall that provides full protection and requires the author to login, using an account that has been assigned the appropriate access rights.

You can perform following activities with author environment depending up on your access rights.

• generate new content, or edit existing content, on a page
• use predefined templates to create new content pages
• create, edit and manage your assets and collections
• create, edit and manage your publications
• develop your campaigns and the related resources
• develop and manage your social community sites
• move, copy or delete content pages, assets, etc
• publish (or unpublish) pages, assets, etc

Additionally, there are administrative tasks that help you manage your content:

• workflows (you can learn in upcoming post)that control how changes are managed; for example. enforcing a review before publication
• projects that coordinate individual tasks

Publish Environment

When ready, the content is published to the publish environment. Here your pages are made available to your intended audience, according to the entire look-and-feel of the interface that you have designed. For a normal internet site, the publish environment is located inside the demilitarized zone; in other words, available to the internet, but no longer under the full protection of your internal network. On the published website visitors can also post comments on the individual pages or interact with the forums.

Dispatcher

To optimize performance for visitors to your website, the dispatcher implements load balancing and caching.

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