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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

Structuring Content


In eZ publish, content is structured using nodes and locations. Nodes are the tree structure that we normally would refer to as the site map. As there are times when we want to have a piece of content in more than one place in the site, an object can have multiple locations.

Nodes and Locations

The content structure in eZ publish is created by nodes. Each node represents a part of the site. A publish object is then associated with a node to be a part of the content structure.

E.g. Node ID 5 is associated with object ID 47.

This approach allows an object to be moved from one node to another without upsetting the site structure.

Locations

Objects can be associated with more than one node so that a particular object can appear in more than once place within the content structure. Each location is a combination of a node and an object.

For example, a particular object (in this case, a news item) can be found in the news section (presented by node ID 54) and in the press release...