Books

Managing eZ publish Web Content Management Projects

Strategies, best practices, and techniques for implementing eZ publish open-source CMS projects to delight your clients – By Martin Bauer.

Ideal for project managers running eZ publish web content management projects, this book is an informative resource providing information on how to run your projects more efficiently. This is achieved by using a series of techniques and practices that you can use to help you manage your projects.

“The main reason I wrote the book was to share the lessons learned from the numerous projects that I was involved in and found what worked and what didn't when it came to eZ publish-based projects…”

This book was intended to help others improve their ability to successfully deliver projects covering everything from Key differences between traditional web development and web content management projects, how to write specifications, through to maintenance and support for your eZ publish managed projects.

Reviews

"A must to have book for web project managers and developers" Lucian Savluc

"Wise man are rare, but they exist and one of them is happy to share his wisdom with all tense CMS consultants and project managers to help them relax." Sandro Groganz

"Overall, I would rate this book very highly. It contains a copious amount of project management information and would be a good guide for any software PM." Nick Ohrn

"If you are a project manager responsible for any eZ Publish projects in your organization you should definitely read through this book." Knut Urdalen

"...it is not too technical, leaving it up to other sources to provide deep technical detail. As a result, it is a great read for project managers, content managers and webmasters." Peter Keung

"Martin Bauer has written a clear book about project management and more specifically eZ publish projects....I recommend this book for project manager who don't know yet eZ publish." Maxime Thomas

"While Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects is written with an eZ Publish focus I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to users of other Web Content Management Systems" Bruce Morrison

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Learning eZ publish 3 : Building content management solutions

This book takes you through the process of designing and building content-rich web sites and applications using eZ publish. Famed for its power and flexibility, eZ publish can be daunting on first approach. Moreover, it has advanced features that reward the investment in learning. This book exists to ease experienced PHP developers into thinking and developing the eZ publish way. With hard-won experience of the practical difficulties faced by developers working with eZ publish, and technical approval from eZ systems (creators of eZ publish) this book is a distillation of the authors expertise, and the perfect way to master the system.

(Chapter 8 contributed by Martin Bauer & Bruce Morrison)

Review of Chapter 8

"This chapter makes the book for me. It provided not just valuable insight into eZ publish, but also a successful "recipe" to deal with clients and handle the various stages in building a site using the technology." Harry Fuecks

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