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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

Features


For sites with custom functionality, the flow of functionality needs to be defined. This can involve a number of diagrams covering front-end display, interaction design, and administration wireframes. The features defined will follow the object relationship model already defined. In the Good Company example, the main objects are Wish, Volunteer, Community Group, and Staff—for each of these objects, there will be a set of features that will define how the objects will interact in the system.

Good Company Feature Overview

Having an overview is a good start to defining how the features work within the context of the site. Then for each feature, we can drill down into the details and specific workflows.

In this diagram, we have an overview of each of the workflows available for volunteers and community groups. Each of the features are then captured in more detail with an interaction design, e.g. a flowchart.

There are three main features available from the homepage:

  • Volunteer signup and...