Best way to create functional pages

Question

We are getting ready to migrate all our content and functional pieces from out old CMS to CQ5. We have 20 or so pages that are not managed for content. They are basically forms that handle calculations. So we don't really need these in CRX for content managers to open and edit.
So I am wondering what is the best way to go about this? We'll need one template I suppose, but twenty pages will need to created and very customized forms will need to be created that likely would be better off not being editable in CQ.
So I guess my real question is where do we put these files? How do we build them. The code is already there, we just need to find them a home. Maybe a example of a tree structure would be helpful, or if there are tutorials anywhere that deal with this type of thing.

Answer 1

Willy,
According to the CQ5 Developer Training, the best way to do a website structure like these one is by the following steps:
1 - Create a CRX Project (By CRXDE Lite or CRX DE): you need to start by this step because any components that will be used in your site need to be created and managed by CRX. Besides, all the coding (html, css, javascript, jsp, etc) you'll do in the CRX, not in the CQ WebSites.
2 - After create a project, the first component you need to build is the template. The template defines wich components can be used within the selected scope. Every page you'll create after the structure building process will be related to this template.
3 - After the template, you'll build the Page-rendering component. This is the first definition of pages, and inside this component you will create the html/jsp/others pages.
4 - By now, you will be able to create a website and pages in the CQ5 WebSites using the template that you created in step 2 and the pages will look exactly like the
page-rendering component created in the step 3. Everything after that is are adittionals, like a logo component, a parsys component, a serch component, etc.
Here you can see the structure of folders/components in CRX that I created following the Exercise Guide of the Developer Training.
Hope that these informations can help you.