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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

Summary


The purpose of a content model is to capture a high-level view of the system to be created. Getting this right allows you to then go into more depth into each of the classes. It's similar in nature to a class diagram, which captures the names, attributes, and methods for all classes and the relationships between them. Everything then flows from the model: the content classes to be created, the permissions that need to be established, and the views of each content class. It's the foundation of the functional specification. Getting the model right is fundamental; if the model doesn't accurately reflect the business domain, then chances are, when the system has been built, there will be problems that will be difficult and expense to fix.