Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

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.

Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

Free Chapter

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

Five Facets of Design

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

Requirements

Project Brief

Project Brief—The White Angel Foundation

Planning Workshop

Estimation

Summary

How to Write a Specification

Content Classes and Rules

Custom Templates

Screen and Performance Standards

Specification Process

Creative Brief

Summary

Content Modeling

The Purpose of a Content Model

What Makes a Good Model?

Defining a Content Model

Summary

Planning and Pricing

Project Planning

Pricing Your Project

Summary

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

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

Infrastructure

Version Control

Setup

Configuration and Development

Moving Code between Environments

Content Gathering

Content Population

Summary

Testing

Load Testing

Summary

Training

Standard User Training

Custom Training

User Manual

Technical Training

Summary

Maintenance and Support

Patches

Upgrades

Enhancements

Support

Summary

Appendix A

The White Angel Foundation Functional Specification

8 Browser Compatibility

Index

Customer Reviews

5 star

4 star

3 star

2 star

1 star

3 Standard Features

The White Angel site will have the following standard features available for adding content to the site.

3.1 Section

This is the main building block of the site.

3.1.1 Section Attributes

Title
Body

3.1.2 Rules

A section may contain the following content types

Section
Gallery
Article
Info page
News Archive
FAQ
Link List

3.1.3 Views

3.2 Info page

3.2.1 Attributes

Name
Short Name
Summary
Description

3.3.1 Rules

3.3.2 Views

Full View

Summary View

3.3 Article

3.2.1 Attributes

Title
Author
Date
Intro
Body

3.2.2 Rules

An Article may contain an Article Sub-page Content type

3.3.3 Sub-page Attributes

Title
Body

3.3.4 Views

Article Full View

Article Full View—with Sub-Pages

Article Sub-Page

Article Summary View

3.4 News

3.4.1 News Archive Attributes

Name
Short Name
Summary
Description
No. of items to show

3.4.2 News Items Attributes

Title
Short Title
Date
Summary
Body

3.4.3 Rules

The Main News Archive is a display of all news items in a descending order of their date attribute. On the main page the title, date, and intro are displayed. When the title is clicked on the full new item is displayed.

A News Archive may contain News items

3.4.4 Views

News Archive

News Archive Summary

News Item

News Item Summary

3.5 Gallery

3.5.1 Attributes

Name
Short Name
Summary
Description
Images per page

The Images per page attribute controls the number of images that are displayed on each gallery page. If there are more than the specified number of images in a gallery Next and Previous links are displayed that allow for the gallery thumbnails to be paged through.

3.5.2 Rules

A Gallery may contain Images

3.5.3 Image Attributes

Name
Caption
Image
Alt Text

3.5.4 Views

Gallery

Gallery Summary

Image

3.6 FAQ

FAQ List Attributes

Title
Description

An FAQ List may contain FAQ Questions

FAQ Question attributes

Question
Answer

3.6.1 Views

FAQ Page

3.7 Flash

3.7.1 Attributes

Name
Description
Flash File
Height
Width
Quality
Autoplay
Loop

3.7.2 Rules

3.7.3 Views

3.8 Video

3.8.1 Attributes

Name
Description
Video File
Height
Width
Quality
Controller
Loop

3.8.2 Rules

Applies for Windows media, quicktime, and realtime video files.

3.8.3 Views

3.9 Portal

3.9.1 Attributes

Name
Body

3.9.2 Rules

Can only be displayed in right-hand column.

3.9.3 Views

3.10 Node List

3.10.1 Attributes

Item Source
Title
Show in subtree
Number of items
Sort on attribute
Fetch Whole Tree

3.10.2 Rules

Can only be displayed in right-hand column.

3.10.3 Views

3.11 Links List

3.11.1 Links List Attributes

Title
Short Title
Summary
Description

3.11.2 Link Attributes

Name
Description
URL
Link Text

3.11.3 Rules

The main page of the Link List displays the Name and description of the link. Clicking on the name will display the link in a new window.

A Lists List can only contain Links.

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3 Standard Features

3.1 Section

3.1.1 Section Attributes

3.1.2 Rules

3.1.3 Views

3.2 Info page

3.2.1 Attributes

3.3.1 Rules

3.3.2 Views

3.3 Article

3.2.1 Attributes

3.2.2 Rules

3.3.3 Sub-page Attributes

3.3.4 Views

3.4 News

3.4.1 News Archive Attributes

3.4.2 News Items Attributes

3.4.3 Rules

3.4.4 Views

3.5 Gallery

3.5.1 Attributes

3.5.2 Rules

3.5.3 Image Attributes

3.5.4 Views

3.6 FAQ

3.6.1 Views

3.7 Flash

3.7.1 Attributes

3.7.2 Rules

3.7.3 Views

3.8 Video

3.8.1 Attributes

3.8.2 Rules

3.8.3 Views

3.9 Portal

3.9.1 Attributes

3.9.2 Rules

3.9.3 Views

3.10 Node List

3.10.1 Attributes

3.10.2 Rules

3.10.3 Views

3.11 Links List

3.11.1 Links List Attributes

3.11.2 Link Attributes

3.11.3 Rules

3.11.4 Views