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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

Custom Templates


We have already covered the views for specific content types. These are also custom templates but are related to a specific content type. For most sites, there will also be custom templates that will use a number of content types to create a single page. The most common examples of this are the homepage and section pages.

The specification should contain a wireframe for each template as well as note the views for each content type and any rules for those views. The following wireframe shows a homepage for the arts supplies site referred to in content types and rules previously.

Deans Art Homepage

The homepage will contain introductory copy with the following elements:

  • Logo

  • Homepage image (editable in CMS)

  • Specials—(custom content type) as selected

  • Gallery—displaying featured work

  • Deans Art Club portlet—links to Club pages

Queen Victoria Women's Centre Homepage

This is another example of a homepage that will require a custom template:

In this case, we define the source of the information...