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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

Support


Whether you are supporting a client or it's an in-house solution, support can be broken down into two main categories: assistance with content management and bug fixes.

Content Management

In the majority of cases, there's a need for someone that has extensive experience with managing content in eZ publish. The flexibility of eZ publish means there are often several ways to achieve the same goal and it's only through experience that you can work out which is the most appropriate for a given situation.

Most of the time, the requests will be simple, e.g.:

  • How do I add a link to an image?

  • How to create a table?

  • How to make the images left aligned?

This is just a matter of referring the end user to the manual or walking them through it over the phone. In extreme cases, you may need to run another training course. This often happens when a new staff member is assigned to manage the solution and has no previous experience with eZ publish.

As a rule of thumb, the number of requests for help are...