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How to design a eZ publish site?

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John D

Tuesday 09 November 2010 9:54:20 am

Hi,

I have just started learning about eZ Publish and have installed 4.4 on a local server @ home. The front end admin and back end admin is understanable after reading the documentation. But when in comes to doing changes to the design eZ Publish is a bit harder to understand than other CMS.

I have searched the internet and forum for good articles about doing changes to the design. But I can't really find a straight forward(updated) article/tutorial. So I was hoping someone here could point me in the right direction.

If I change the sitestyle, that is only the colors/style?

To make bigger changes to the layout, I have to start working with the templates? Is there a "empty" set of templates I can start with and upload as a design package when I am happy with the result.

Jérôme Vieilledent

Tuesday 09 November 2010 12:01:14 pm

Hi John

What package are did you start from ? Website interface ? Plain site ? eZ Flow ?

You'll find some pieces of information in this article (pretty old though).

IMHO, the best is to work with your own templates, wrapped up in a design extension (see this article about extensions). I was planning to write a tutorial about that but I'm unfortunately short on time...

John D

Tuesday 09 November 2010 12:24:08 pm

Hi Jérôme,

Thanks for the reply.

I installed with ezwebin without demo content.

Romeo Antony

Tuesday 09 November 2010 11:21:31 pm

John,

you will be able to easily grasp how sites developed & designed in inezp if you go through this manual(step by step )

https://auth.ez.no/ezpublish/documentation/building_an_ez_publish_site/creating_the_tscm_site

Regards

Romeo

John D

Wednesday 10 November 2010 2:05:25 am

Hi Romeo,

Thanks for the reply.

The article is last updated 2004? Is this safe to use with the 4.4 installation I got?

I got a design that I would like to add to my eZ Publish installation, but with all the different articles and information I am not sure where to start.

Romeo Antony

Thursday 11 November 2010 5:07:19 am

John, doesn't matter whicherver version you are using . Once you understand the basic about the ez desgn structure and organization, thing would become smotther. I think designpart like how the templates are loaded , its working is a bit hard to understand.

I have followed the same article mentioned. Basic is the same . So try it

eZ debug

Timing: Jan 18 2025 01:00:21
Script start
Timing: Jan 18 2025 01:00:21
Module start 'content'
Timing: Jan 18 2025 01:00:21
Module end 'content'
Timing: Jan 18 2025 01:00:21
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Main resources:

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Peak memory usage4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries141

Timing points:

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Time accumulators:

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Ini load
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Check MTime0.00140.7510200.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection0.00120.623810.0012
Mysqli_queries0.141374.96941410.0010
Looping result0.00160.82841390.0000
Template Total0.174892.710.1748
Template load0.00080.427010.0008
Template processing0.174092.319610.1740
Override
Cache load0.00060.311410.0006
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value0.00130.680610.0013
XML
Image XML parsing0.00030.137910.0003
General
dbfile0.00271.4570200.0001
String conversion0.00000.004330.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

CSS/JS files loaded with "ezjscPacker" during request:

CacheTypePacklevelSourceFiles
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extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/scrollbars.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/tabs.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/roadmap.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/content.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/star-rating.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/syntax_and_custom_tags.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/buttons.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/tweetbox.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css
extension/bcsmoothgallery/design/standard/stylesheets/magnific-popup.css
extension/sevenx/design/simple/stylesheets/star_rating.css
extension/sevenx/design/simple/stylesheets/libs/fontawesome/css/all.min.css
extension/sevenx/design/simple/stylesheets/main.v02.css
extension/sevenx/design/simple/stylesheets/main.v02.res.css
JS0extension/ezjscore/design/standard/lib/yui/3.17.2/build/yui/yui-min.js
extension/ezjscore/design/standard/javascript/jquery-3.7.0.min.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.ui.core.min.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.ui.widget.min.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.easing.1.3.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.ui.tabs.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.hoverIntent.min.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.popmenu.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jScrollPane.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.mousewheel.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.cycle.all.js
extension/sevenx/design/simple/javascript/jquery.scrollTo.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.cookie.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/ezstarrating_jquery.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.initboxes.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/app.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/twitterwidget.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/community.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/roadmap.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/ez.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/ezshareevents.js
extension/sevenx/design/simple/javascript/main.js

Templates used to render the page:

UsageRequested templateTemplateTemplate loadedEditOverride
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 Number of times templates used: 1
 Number of unique templates used: 1

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs