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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

Technical Training


There are two general categories of clients, those who only want to manage the content and will outsource any technical work, and those that are willing to take on the technical management of their solution.

For the latter category, it's a matter of finding the right people within the organization and training them to become in-house eZ publish developers.

The first step is to take official eZ publish training. This will provide a base level understanding of the system and how it works as well as covering a number of useful practical tasks such as installation, configuration, and template programming.

Ideally, once basic training has been completed, the next step is to provide the in-house developer with a development environment that will enable them to practice their skills. Also, the in-house developer should be given a technical overview of the solution that they will be supporting.

I recently followed this procedure for a client. The eZ publish training went well but...