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Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

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Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

Overview of this book

open-source CMS (content management system) and development framework with functionality for web publishing, intranets, e-commerce, extranets, and web portals. In this book, Martin Bauer of designit.com.au an eZ publish Silver partner, teaches you how to successfully manage and implement an eZ publish web content management project. He shows you how to produce quality results in a repeatable manner with the minimum of effort, and end up with eZ publish solutions that will delight your clients. The book presents strategies, best practices, and techniques for all steps of your eZ publish project, starting from client requirements, through planning, information architecture and content modeling, design considerations, and right up to deployment, client training, maintenance, support, and upgrades.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Configuration and Development


Once you have your environments set up and eZ publish installed and configured, you're ready to start configuring the system as per the specification. As a rule of thumb, the steps are as defined overleaf:

Note

Note: This is a guideline only, and depends on the nature of your particular project. In complex projects, sometimes tackling the extensions first is a good idea, getting the hardest work out of the way. Also, it depends on how many developers are on the project. If you have a number of developers, you can have some of these tasks working in parallel.

Content Classes

The first step is to create all the content classes that have been defined in the specification. This should be a straightforward task that shouldn't take more than a few hours. It's just a matter of applying what's already been defined.

Site Structure

With the content classes in place, you can now go about creating the site structure as per the site map in the specification using the appropriate...