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eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step

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eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step

Overview of this book

eZ Publish provides developers with a structure to build highly impressive applications and then quickly deploy them into a live environment. eZ Publish is complex, with a steep learning curve, but with the right direction it offers great flexibility and power. What makes eZ Publish special is not the long list of features, but what's going on behind the scenes. Created specifically for newcomers to eZ Publish, and using an example Magazine web site, this book focuses on designing, building and deploying eZ Publish to create an enterprise site quickly and easily. This tutorial takes eZ Publish's steep learning curve head-on, and walks you through the process of designing and building content-rich web sites. It makes the unrivalled power and flexibility of eZ Publish accessible to all developers. The book is organized around technical topics, which are handled in depth, with a general progression that follows the learning experience of the reader, and features a single magazine web site project from installation to completion and deployment. This hands-on guide helps the reader to understand the Content Management System to create a web 2.0-ready web site by creating new extensions or overriding the existing ones. In turn, it helps you to become confident when working in the eZ Publish administration area and offers an environment in which you can practice while working through the chapters.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
Advance Debugging

Managing the content


One of the main scopes of a CMS is to manage any kind of content and data structure with as little effort for the users as possible. So it is very important to handle the content with enough flexibility to allow choosing what to show and what not to show in any possible context.

For example, a good CMS should allow us to store a lot of information on an article, useful for internal use, and choose not to show on the site frontend, because it is not necessary for readers. Or, instead, a CMS, gives us the ability to update our articles by adding information and rewriting them easily.

So, we not only need a complete decoupling of the content from the design, but also the ability to manage the content in different possible ways.

Separation of content and design

If the content can be defined as the action to store data in some way, the purpose of the design is to display that data. One of the key features of eZ Publish is the complete separation of content and design. This...