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Monday 03 August 2009 3:46:37 pm
Dear Jennifer, Welcome on this forum! Up until now, I have not yet very much experience with eZ Publish. So there are surely members of the community who can better answer your question than I. However, I can already formulate some advantages eZ Publish would be able to offer to you. Frontpage is known to generate poor code. It is up to you to decide about the importance of standard compliant code with respect to accessibility, search engines optimization, and the future of the web, with more and more different kinds of web clients. WordPress seems to be good for blogs, but it is of course not a software playing in the top level league like eZ Publish. As you have sites where you offer products for sale, I suppose you have also an e-commerce system. So one advantage of eZ Publish would be that, from one installation of eZ Publish, you can administer all your sites, as eZ Publish allows as well for blogs as for e-commerce, which is fully integrated in eZ Publish. You would have only one software to maintain. And even with only one eZ Publish installation, you can choose for each of your sites which database you want to use. If your sites have a lot of accesses, you can use more than one database server, implementing clustering with load balancing. One of the big advantages of eZ Publish is the clean separation between contents and design it achieves: only crystal pure XML is stored in the database, no HTML. This allows for easy output in various formats, and makes sure that the content of your websites is ready for future web standards. Another big advantage of eZ Publish is that it is not just a web content management system. I see eZ Publish first of all as a content management system with a sound architecture and a solid foundation, moreover offering a web content management system. This includes the fact that eZ Publish allows for an automated, yet very flexible data storage system, leaving you the choice between the default data structures, datastructures you define as modifications of the default data structures, or datastructures you define from scratch. The advantage of this is that you can have custom data storage structures, adapted to all your needs. For the attributes of those data structures, many datatypes offer input validation. Being first of all a content management system, eZ Publish is very well suited for integration with other applications, for example with marketing, finance, accountancy, and operations management. So as a conclusion, I would say that, if towards the future, you want to benefit from a sophisticated management system, eZ Publish would be a cornerstone that is very well worth the investment of implementing it.
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