Where to start for customisation?

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Jonathan Stubbs	Wednesday 20 August 2003 12:27:22 am Have read through the documentation on this site, and also went through the new article on SitePoint. In the case of the Sitepoint article I do get somewhere, but it still does not work as it is supposed to. I read on these forums someone suggesting that the best thing is to copy the demo design and site access folders and re-name them to one's own design. Can someone tell me exactly what is the best way to start with customisation because its very confusing! Also, is it best to start with the demo data then delete it, or start with a blank installation? Thanks for any help...
Alex Jones	Wednesday 20 August 2003 6:31:25 am Jonathan, If you have time to fiddle with the system I would highly recommend you start experimenting with altering the templates and creating new pages. Think of a couple of tasks that you would want to do on the site and try to replicate them in eZ publish. This will lead you down a path of learning how to grab lists of items for display, altering the page layout and overriding page layouts. In addition to familiarizing yourself with the eZ publish markup language, I would recommend you check out the information on overriding templates: http://www.ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/documentation/customization/custom_design/override_templates This experience can be confusing at first which is why I recommend you break it down into tasks that allow you to tackle the learning in small doses. Also, there is a lot of information throughout the forums regarding how to achieve certain layouts which should help you as you develop your site, and the board tends to be pretty good about answering specific questions. :) Alex Alex [ bald_technologist on the IRC channel (irc.freenode.net): #eZpublish ] <i>When in doubt, clear the cache.</i>

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Wednesday 20 August 2003 12:27:22 am

Have read through the documentation on this site, and also went through the new article on SitePoint. In the case of the Sitepoint article I do get somewhere, but it still does not work as it is supposed to.

I read on these forums someone suggesting that the best thing is to copy the demo design and site access folders and re-name them to one's own design.

Can someone tell me exactly what is the best way to start with customisation because its very confusing!

Also, is it best to start with the demo data then delete it, or start with a blank installation?

Thanks for any help...

Alex Jones

Wednesday 20 August 2003 6:31:25 am

Jonathan,

If you have time to fiddle with the system I would highly recommend you start experimenting with altering the templates and creating new pages. Think of a couple of tasks that you would want to do on the site and try to replicate them in eZ publish. This will lead you down a path of learning how to grab lists of items for display, altering the page layout and overriding page layouts.

In addition to familiarizing yourself with the eZ publish markup language, I would recommend you check out the information on overriding templates: http://www.ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/documentation/customization/custom_design/override_templates

This experience can be confusing at first which is why I recommend you break it down into tasks that allow you to tackle the learning in small doses. Also, there is a lot of information throughout the forums regarding how to achieve certain layouts which should help you as you develop your site, and the board tends to be pretty good about answering specific questions. :)

Alex

Alex
[ bald_technologist on the IRC channel (irc.freenode.net): #eZpublish ]

<i>When in doubt, clear the cache.</i>

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 31 2025 01:25:07
Script start
Timing:	Jan 31 2025 01:25:07
Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 31 2025 01:25:07
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 31 2025 01:25:07
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Jan 31 2025 01:25:07
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.0227 sec
Peak memory usage	6,144.0000 KB
Database Queries	3

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0054	588.1563	151.2109
Module start 'layout'	0.0054	0.0037	739.3672	220.6875
Module start 'content'	0.0092	0.0121	960.0547	997.7109
Module end 'content'	0.0212	0.0014	1,957.7656	29.9922
Script end	0.0226		1,987.7578

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0029	12.8600	14	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0011	5.0085	14	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0011	4.8412	1	0.0011
Mysqli_queries	0.0020	8.9995	3	0.0007
Looping result	0.0000	0.0621	1	0.0000
Template Total	0.0010	4.4	1	0.0010
Template load	0.0008	3.5438	1	0.0008
Template processing	0.0002	0.8870	1	0.0002
Override
Cache load	0.0005	2.3527	1	0.0005
General
dbfile	0.0003	1.1669	8	0.0000
String conversion	0.0000	0.0263	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	Edit	Override
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 1 Number of unique templates used: 1

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs