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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

Chapter 6. Content Modeling

Organizing content in a meaningful way is nothing new. We have been doing it for centuries in our libraries—the Dewey decimal system being a perfect example. So, why can't we take known approaches and apply them to the Web? The main reason is that a web page has more than two dimensions. A page on a book might have footnotes or refer to other pages, but the content only appears in one place. On a web page, content can directly link to other content and even show a summary of it. It goes way beyond just the content that appears on the page—links, related content, reviews, ratings, etc. All of this brings extra dimensions to the core content of the page and how it is displayed. This is why it's so important to ensure your content model is sound. However, there is no such thing as the "right" content model. Each content model can only be judged on how well it achieves the goals of the website now and in the future.