How Easy Is It To Skin ezPublish

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Michelle McCarty	Thursday 27 October 2005 2:41:42 am I am looking into using a CMS for a music artist site I am re-designing and I am considering eZPublish. How easy is it to make a unique skin for eZPublish and do you have to be really code proficient. I have basic HTML knowledge and use Photoshop/Dreamweaver to create sites. The site that is going to be redesigned has CD's for sale via another eTailer. Can I combine HTML and this CMS to develop the site? Thanks
Łukasz Serwatka	Thursday 27 October 2005 3:15:48 am Hi Michelle, eZ publish layout is div based, this means that you can easily change layout using CSS techniques only. Good examples are in contribs section in Site Styles category so you can see what can be done without changing templates. Quick examples: http://ez.no/community/contribs/site_styles/ice http://ez.no/community/contribs/site_styles/structural http://ez.no/community/contribs/site_styles/hardwood_style In article section is good tutorial how to create own site style. http://ez.no/community/articles/build_table_less_css_layouts_with_ez_publish eZ publish uses templates for content presentation, so you can define your own templates which are html/xhtml based. Personal website -> http://serwatka.net Blog (about eZ Publish) -> http://serwatka.net/blog
Michelle McCarty	Thursday 27 October 2005 3:35:21 am Lukasz, This is excellent information. Thank you very much for posting it. I think this will work for my needs.
roi danton	Sunday 19 February 2006 7:18:28 am I like very much the eZ site-skin. Can it be downloaded and used for own purposes? If not,how and where exactly has the program to be modified, so the site looks exactly like the main eZ site?
André R.	Monday 20 February 2006 2:54:59 am when skinning eZ you don't need to be an html expert, but you should have a good understanding of css. If you want to use your own html, you'll have to make your own complete pagetemplate / design. Not recomended unless you have some special demands. eZ Online Editor 5: http://projects.ez.no/ezoe \|\| eZJSCore (Ajax): http://projects.ez.no/ezjscore \|\| eZ Publish EE http://ez.no/eZPublish/eZ-Publish-Enterprise-Subscription @: http://twitter.com/andrerom

eZ debug

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Module start 'layout'
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Module start 'content'
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Module end 'content'
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Main resources:

Total runtime	1.0329 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	67

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0075	592.8984	152.6406
Module start 'layout'	0.0075	0.0031	745.5391	39.4766
Module start 'content'	0.0106	1.0209	785.0156	636.5156
Module end 'content'	1.0315	0.0013	1,421.5313	12.4531
Script end	1.0329		1,433.9844

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0030	0.2933	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0013	0.1240	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0007	0.0665	1	0.0007
Mysqli_queries	0.9777	94.6574	67	0.0146
Looping result	0.0006	0.0622	65	0.0000
Template Total	0.9965	96.5	2	0.4983
Template load	0.0025	0.2445	2	0.0013
Template processing	0.9940	96.2337	2	0.4970
Template load and register function	0.0002	0.0186	1	0.0002
states
state_id_array	0.0016	0.1544	1	0.0016
state_identifier_array	0.0014	0.1350	2	0.0007
Override
Cache load	0.0018	0.1774	29	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0006	0.0584	4	0.0002
Fetch class attribute name	0.0013	0.1253	7	0.0002
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0011	0.1089	4	0.0003
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0015	7	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0009	0.0909	25	0.0000
String conversion	0.0000	0.0011	4	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded
1	node/view/full.tpl	full/forum_topic.tpl	extension/sevenx/design/simple/override/templates/full/forum_topic.tpl
5	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
6	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
2	content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl	<No override>	extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl
2	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 17 Number of unique templates used: 6

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs