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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

Pricing Your Project


There are two ways you can approach when pricing your project. The traditional method is time-based, the alternative is value-based.

This assumes:

  1. you are working on an external project or

  2. for internal projects there's an internal charge

If you are working on an internal project and there's no need to price the project, you can skip this part of the chapter; however, I think it's always good to have an understanding of the value of a project.

Time-Based Pricing

This is what most people use. It's based on how long it will take to complete the project multiplied by the hourly rate.

E.g.

Task

Time

Rate

Cost

eZ Installation

2 hrs

120

240

Design concepts

8 hrs

100

800

Create custom content classes

4 hrs

120

480

Implement site structure

4 hrs

120

480

Enter sample content

4 hrs

120

480

Create custom templates

35 hrs

120

4200

Apply styling

20 hrs

100

2000

Testing (functionality & cross browser)

14 hrs

100

1400

Repeat testing & apply...