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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

Understanding the backend


In Chapter 3, we focused on the Setup tab, and created new content classes and class attributes. Now we'll take a step back and get introduced to the backend of eZ Publish, to understand how the Content structure and Media library tabs work.

As we can see, the backend of eZ Publish is divided into four main areas:

  • The navigation bar (on the top of the screen)

  • The secondary menu (on the left-hand side of the screen)

  • The content area

  • The right-hand menu

Inside the navigation bar, we will find the main menu and a breadcrumb path.

Note

What is a breadcrumb path?

Breadcrumbs or a breadcrumb path is a navigation aid used in user interfaces. It provides users with a way to keep track of their location within programs or documents. The term comes from the trail of breadcrumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the popular fairytale.

The navigation menu contains the links to all of the main sections of the CMS, and also includes a classic breadcrumb path that helps us to understand...