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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

Screen and Performance Standards


We have already defined what is going to appear on each screen by using wireframes. However, we also need to consider issues such as accessibility, browser compatibility, screen resolution, and performance of the system as a whole.

Browser Compatibility

Browse rs are always changing; what was standard two years ago is different to now. However, what's important here is what browsers your client will require you to support now, and in the future. Simply accommodating the most popular browsers now will mean that when the newest browser becomes the most popular, there's a good chance rework will be required, e.g. when IE7 first came out, the adoption rate was slow, but soon it became far more popular. Creating a solution that catered for IE6 only would mean that in a short space of time rework would be inevitable.

As there is no true standard set of browsers with which to be compatible, you'll need to firstly confirm any specific requirements set by the client...