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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.

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Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects
Oct, 2007 | 320 pages
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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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
1
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
2
Information Architecture and Design
Information Architecture and Design
Information Architecture
Five Facets of Design
3
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
4
Defining an eZ Publish Project
Defining an eZ Publish Project
Requirements
Project Brief
Project Brief—The White Angel Foundation
Planning Workshop
Estimation
Summary
5
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
6
Content Modeling
Content Modeling
The Purpose of a Content Model
What Makes a Good Model?
Defining a Content Model
Summary
7
Planning and Pricing
Planning and Pricing
Project Planning
Pricing Your Project
Summary
8
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
9
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
10
Implementation
Implementation
Infrastructure
Version Control
Setup
Configuration and Development
Moving Code between Environments
Content Gathering
Content Population
Summary
11
Testing
Testing
Load Testing
Summary
12
Training
Training
Standard User Training
Custom Training
User Manual
Technical Training
Summary
13
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

Key Risks in eZ publish Projects

The majority of the information in this chapter could apply to most projects. For eZ publish projects, there are two main risks to be aware of:

Experience

The most important is the experience level of the production team. Despite the level of documentation and the ease of installation, eZ publish is a sophisticated application and not something that can be installed and configured in a week. It takes time to get a full understanding of the application and how it operates, to then be able to effectively use it to deliver quality solutions.

If you're starting on your first project with eZ publish, and you don't have an experienced eZ publish programmer, at least double the amount of time you think it will take. The official technical training course takes 4 days. That's for a developer with PHP and MySQL skills. Then allow another 2 – 3 months of working with eZ publish for that developer to be proficient enough to be able to develop sites with any level of interactivity...

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