Best Practices for Creating a Website in CQ5

Following are the best practices, tips, and tricks for creating a website in CQ5 or AEM, that can save a lot of time and effort if used from scratch of the project to avail full power and flexibility of Adobe Experience Manager(AEM) and Adobe Communique(CQ).

Typically we need to create a new website in cq5 or aem in below scenarios:

• There is an existing website. You want to create it in AEM or CQ5.
• You don’t have a website and you are developing one from the beginning. You may have a prototype or a wireframe that helps you to understand the different elements needed on the website.

Below are the best practices for creating a website in CQ5 or AEM:

• Examine all pages and begin grouping them by structure similarities. Ignore the content at this point and look at structure only.
• Sketch or whiteboard similarities and differences.
• Identify the unique templates that need to be created.
• Catalog the required component.
• Identify inheritance between the foundation Super Types and unique template structure.
• Map the required components to out of the box components.
• Break down the page into Header, Content, and Footer.
• After identifying the templates, you can begin to de-construct the page by identifying individual components that make up the page.
• The above decomposition will help us in identifying which components are reusable and which are unique.
• Once you have broken down the entire requirement start working on the project.

Tip: Always try to keep as few templates as possible.