AEM Tutorial Series: Learn AEM Step by Step

This tutorial series covers AEM basics on version 6.4, in the order a new developer or author needs them. It works for anyone learning AEM from scratch and for anyone brushing up before moving to AEM as a Cloud Service.

Part 1: the basics

1. Training index
2. What is AEM?
3. Prerequisites for learning AEM
4. AEM installation and setup; starting and stopping the AEM server
5. AEM architecture — the building blocks
6. AEM environments — author, publish and replication
7. A walkthrough of the AEM consoles — see useful AEM consoles
8. AEM folder structure
9. Authoring and publishing
10. Creating and installing packages
11. A sample component and template — see creating an editable template and AEM Core Components
12. Creating a site

Part 2: AEM 6.4 in practice

• AEM 6.4 Assets
• Touch UI vs Classic UI configurations
• Page properties overview
• Workflow overview
• Asset upload workflows
• Transient workflows
• The content tree
• Page Exporter
• The Assets home page experience
• Asset operations and best practices
• The content approval workflow

Where to go next

• AEM as a Cloud Service tutorials
• AEM 6.4 and 6.5 tutorials
• HTL tutorials