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Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

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Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

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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.

Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

Credits

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

Preface

Preface

Free Chapter

Understanding Web Content Management

Understanding Web Content Management

Why Use a Content Management System?

Content Management versus Development

Myths

Types of Websites and Web Applications

Web Solution Categories

What does All This Mean for eZ Publish Projects?

Summary

Information Architecture and Design

Information Architecture and Design

Information Architecture

Five Facets of Design

eZ Publish Overview

eZ Publish Overview

What is eZ Publish?

Internal Structure and Configuration

The Lego Approach

Data Types, Content Classes, and Objects

Structuring Content

Sections

Templates

Template Override System

Designs

Access Control

Workflow

Extensions

Summary

Defining an eZ Publish Project

Defining an eZ Publish Project

Requirements

Project Brief

Project Brief—The White Angel Foundation

Planning Workshop

Estimation

Summary

How to Write a Specification

How to Write a Specification

Content Model

Users and Groups

Features

Site Map

Content Classes and Rules

Custom Templates

Screen and Performance Standards

Specification Process

Creative Brief

Summary

Content Modeling

Content Modeling

The Purpose of a Content Model

What Makes a Good Model?

Defining a Content Model

Summary

Planning and Pricing

Planning and Pricing

Project Planning

Pricing Your Project

Summary

Risk Management

Risk Management

Key Steps in Risk Management

Types of Risks

Risk Management in Practice

Shooting the Messenger

Key Risks in eZ publish Projects

Summary

Open Project Management

Open Project Management

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools

Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation

Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation

Responding to Change over Following a Plan

Open Management Practices

Summary

Implementation

Implementation

Infrastructure

Version Control

Setup

Configuration and Development

Moving Code between Environments

Content Gathering

Content Population

Summary

Testing

Testing

Load Testing

Summary

Training

Training

Standard User Training

Custom Training

User Manual

Technical Training

Summary

Maintenance and Support

Maintenance and Support

Patches

Upgrades

Enhancements

Support

Summary

Appendix A

Appendix A

The White Angel Foundation Functional Specification

Table of Contents

Revision Control

1 Introduction

2 Site Map

3 Standard Features

4 Page Structure

5 Media Library

6 Users & Roles

7 Custom Features

8 Browser Compatibility

Index

Index

Specification Process

Trying to identify all the functionality is an overwhelming task, and is not possible in a single go; so rather than trying to get everything, we start with a workshop that enables us to capture a high-level view of the domain. This is about understanding the business of the client and how they operate so that we understand the context within which the end solution has to work.

High-Level Specification Workshop

We start with a workshop to capture the following in a high level specification:

Domain overview
Users of the system
Object model
Key relationships between objects
Relationship diagram
Feature overview
Site map

Domain Walkthrough

The client and domain experts walk us through the entire project. Even though we may have a requirements document, drafted the project brief, and been through the planning workshop, it's still important to get the client to take us through the domain. When they talk about the domain, we glean information that we may not already have in particular...

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