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title: Content Management
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description: Enhance your lab experience with Adobe's curated resources, covering page editing, versioning, live copy synchronization, and personalization integration.
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createdAt: 2023-11-06T15:59:10.319Z
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Adobe provides the following links as additional, supplemental information based on goals, use case needs, and discussions within lab sessions. This information is intended to augment the experience gained from the Customer Experience Lab curriculum.

### Fundamentals

[Edge Delivery Services Overview](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/edge-delivery/overview) — What EDS is, how it works, and how it fits within the AEM as a Cloud Service ecosystem

[EDS + AEM Sites](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/sites/sites-and-edge) — How Edge Delivery co-exists with AEM Sites on the same domain and when to use each

[Architecture](https://www.aem.live/docs/architecture) — The three-tier delivery model: content/media/code buses, the experience composition layer, and CDN integration

[EDS in Cloud Manager](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/implementing/using-cloud-manager/edge-delivery-sites/introduction-to-edge-delivery-services) — How to register, onboard, and manage EDS sites through Cloud Manager, including CDN setup and support ticketing

[FAQ](https://www.aem.live/docs/faq) — Answers on access control, indexing, analytics integrations, Target, Forms licensing, and SEO behavior

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### Authoring Approaches

[Document-Based Authoring Overview](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-learn/sites/edge-delivery-services/overview) — Creating pages from Word or Google Docs, including the preview/publish flow and Sidekick usage

[WYSIWYG Authoring with Universal Editor](https://www.aem.live/docs/aem-authoring) — Block-and-section authoring using the Universal Editor as the visual interface for EDS projects

[AEM Sidekick](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/edge-delivery/docs-authoring/sidekick.html) — Browser extension for previewing and publishing content directly from SharePoint, Google Drive, or AEM

[Metadata & SEO](https://www.aem.live/docs/faq) — Using the metadata block and bulk metadata sheet to manage page titles, descriptions, social previews, and noindex directives

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### Developer Fundamentals

[Getting Started: Developer Tutorial](https://www.aem.live/developer/tutorial) — Cloning the boilerplate, setting up local dev, and making your first commit to a live EDS site

[Block Development](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/edge-delivery/developing/developing.html) — How blocks are structured in HTML, decorated with CSS, and enhanced with vanilla JavaScript

[Block Collection](https://www.aem.live/developer/block-collection) — Adobe's library of pre-built, extensible blocks equivalent to Core Components for EDS projects

[Page HTML Structure](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-learn/sites/edge-delivery-services/overview) — How sections, blocks, and default content map to the DOM hierarchy EDS delivers to the browser

[Section Metadata](https://www.aem.live/developer/tutorial) — Configuring section-level behavior and styling through metadata rows in document tables

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### Content Operations

[Indexing](https://www.aem.live/docs/faq) — How EDS indexes page content into spreadsheet-backed JSON endpoints and how to configure custom index definitions

[Redirects](https://www.aem.live/docs/faq) — Managing URL redirects via the redirects spreadsheet in the content source

[Sitemap & robots.txt](https://www.aem.live/docs/faq) — Auto-generated sitemaps and how to configure crawl rules for EDS sites

[Image Optimization](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/edge-delivery/overview) — How EDS automatically resizes and optimizes images at delivery without manual intervention

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### Experimentation & Personalization

[Built-in Experimentation Framework](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/edge-delivery/overview) — Creating and running A/B tests natively within EDS without performance impact or external tooling

[Adobe Target Integration](https://www.aem.live/docs/faq) — Connecting EDS to Target for server-side personalization alongside the native experimentation framework

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### Forms

[EDS Forms Overview](https://www.aem.live/developer/forms) — Document-based and WYSIWYG authoring options for forms, and when to use each

[Adaptive Forms Block](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/edge-delivery/build-forms/getting-started-edge-delivery-services-forms/create-forms) — Adding the Adaptive Forms Block to an EDS project and building forms via spreadsheet field definitions

[Configuring Spreadsheets to Accept Submissions](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/edge-delivery/build-forms/getting-started-edge-delivery-services-forms/submit-forms) — Setting up incoming sheets, field headers, and Slack notifications for form data capture

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### Performance & Monitoring

[Core Web Vitals for EDS](https://www.aem.live/developer/cwv) — How EDS achieves perfect Lighthouse scores and what authoring or block patterns can affect them

[Operational Telemetry (RUM)](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/edge-delivery/rum.html) — Real user monitoring built into every EDS site for tracking performance and content engagement



