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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

Content Model


The purpose of the content model is to define the main content classes in the system and how they relate to each other. It is a high-level view of the system; details of each of the content classes will be defined later in the specification. This model becomes the foundation for the solution. The approach used here is based on object role modeling, which maps the traditional concept of an object model with relational database schemas (for more information, see http://www.orm.net). It is not the only way to capture this information but one that works well in this environment. You can replace this with your own form of modeling—the key is to understand the objects and the relationships within the business environment.

The Studies in Australia Model

The following diagram outlines the main content classes, and relationships between them. The example used here is from the Studies In Australia website (http://www.studiesinaustralia), which provides detailed information on all tertiary...