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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

The Lego Approach


eZ publish is a bit like Lego. It provides a clean base and a series of "blocks" that you can use to create your solution. How you combine these blocks will determine how the system works. Most of what you'll need is already provided in the framework but if you need to, you can add your own custom blocks to achieve what you need.

So, what do I mean by blocks?

There are three types of blocks:

  • Content blocks

  • Display blocks

  • Functional blocks

Content Blocks

The content blocks are formed by data types that combine to form content types. These are the basis of the system. eZ publish being a content management system, content is the core of all solutions.

The data types already exist within eZ publish; you simply select a number of them together to create a content class. The content class is like a table in a database. This defines the structure of the content that the system will store.

Display Blocks

The display blocks are templates that combine to form a page. A template is a combination...