CMS - Is it a solution (ezPublish)? Help!!

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The Warden	Monday 29 September 2003 3:06:50 pm Hi. I've been researching out CMS for over a week now and still not sure what to use. I believe CMS is the solution but have not been able to find something that will work for me. I require a CMS that will break down the content, content by content and stored in a MySQL database. The content would be just text/tables, PDF files, schematics, software updates, promo items, etc. I also would like the CMS to handle updating certain sections. For example uploading new literature and setting the status on-line or offline, Updating Top 10 sales, etc. I would also like to have the CMS with templates so I can change the look and feel on the fly and have multiple sites running at the same time. It would also be nice to have a framework/methodology that would handle this. I believe ezPublish would be the way to go but do you think I can figure it out. I do not even know where to begin changing the look of the site in ezPublish to match what I have now. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!
Björn Dieding@xrow.de	Tuesday 30 September 2003 3:17:58 am I would say the best way to start would be the community documentation. An other idea would be to get professional help on your frist eZ project and then try to work on it alone. Looking for a new job? http://www.xrow.com/xrow-GmbH/Jobs Looking for hosting? http://hostingezpublish.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GMT +01:00 Hannover, Germany Web: http://www.xrow.com/
Karsten Jennissen	Tuesday 30 September 2003 4:47:01 am Whether you can do it depends on your previous knowledge and your motivation to learn. :-) The things you are describing are not too difficult to do with eZ publish. But obviously you do not have any CMS experience. Do you have PHP/programming experience? Check out the documentation as Björn said and start with learning the terminology and the architecture of the system. Then check out the template language to learn how and where you can customize the look at feel. eZ publish is not an out of the box plug&play system but it's worth it. Karsten
The Warden	Tuesday 30 September 2003 8:20:51 am I've read quite a bit of the documentation and find it quite confusing. Stuff is everywhere not contained in one spot, even a nice PDF of all the literature would make a life of difference. Yes I have PHP/programming experience. I've been programming in PHP for more then 3 years now not to mention previous programming experience and education taken. I'm quite knowledge in this area. I understand the CMS concepts but will ezPublish give me what I need mentioned in my first post?? Or does it involved adding to the ezPublish myself? Thanks for the replies!
Karsten Jennissen	Wednesday 01 October 2003 4:02:38 am eZ publish is able to do all the things from your first post. As I said, you will need to learn the template language, in any case. Karsten