Advice...Should I use eZ Publish??

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Scott Patterson	Tuesday 14 February 2006 5:46:35 am I'm starting a new community web portal for an audience of school teachers & administrators for an entire country (audience of nearly a hundred thousand professionals). I'm new to the open source Content Management space...previous community sites I've been involved with have been developed using in-house developed custom applications (programmers), design teams, and IT staff. I can easily see the value in a CMS system...this seems to be the right approach to building sites. However, I'm having trouble identifying the right solution for my project. I need a CMS platform that hopefully has existing modules for: Community Forums Multiple Blogs (with complete blog features) Community Job Board (post, search, e-mail, resume/cv upload??) Article Publishing (with reader commentary, archives, categorization, ratings, etc) Advertising management (banner ads, text ads) User Directory (Private) I can see there is probably a way to get some/much of this functionality through just manual entry....but obviously I'd like it to be automated, integrated, feature rich. Can such a site with eZ Publish be easily created with available modules/contributions (either free or purchased)?? Is eZ honestly the best open source CMS platform to do this in or would something like DotNetNuke, Joomla, Mamboserver, or Bricolage and their various communities suit this kind of site better? Honest feedback is greatly appreciated!!!!
Lazaro Ferreira	Tuesday 14 February 2006 6:45:00 am Hi, I think you can get an ideia of what ezpublish is capable of, surfing at ez.no own site , I think that you wont get all the staff mentioned below out of the box , but I can assure you that ezpublish is an excelent tool to manage and publish content, and to develop unique websites because of its flexibility. We have experience with other very well ranked commercial systems and we think ezpublish beats then in flexibility (template funcionalty, data model ) Reading through what you said below , you can get what you want using ezpublish as your main system, regarding advertizing you can easily integrate ezpublish with phpAds (we have already done) would like to hear more about this from others in the forum Regards Lazaro http://www.mzbusiness.com
André R.	Tuesday 14 February 2006 2:57:27 pm .. 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
George Michaelides	Wednesday 15 February 2006 1:27:40 am Let's not kid ourselves here. <b>No system will give you out of the box exactly what you need</b>; therefore you need a system that can easily be configured and extended to achieve what you want with the minimum amount of effort. I have used opencms, mambo as well as other enterprise systems like interwoven and I can honestly say that eZ publish by far the most complete and flexible system you can find. It is open source and what is more, there is a big company backing it and all components are centrally developed and supported. Sometimes it is worth investing a little more time and money on a product that will easily scale and mould to your future needs. Let's take your requirements one by one and apply them to eZ publish <i>Community Forums</i> --> out of the box <i>Multiple Blogs (with complete blog features)</i> --> out of the box <i>Community Job Board (post, search, e-mail, resume/cv upload??)</i> --> achieved by configuration and a couple of new templates <i>Article Publishing (with reader commentary, archives, categorization, ratings, etc)</i> --> out of the box <i>Advertising management (banner ads, text ads)</i> --> achieved by configuration <i>User Directory (Private)</i> --> easily created and configured through the admin interface and by adding a couple of templates Even though I mention "out of the box", this doesn't mean that it is set in stone; you can easily tweak any level of behaviour/look & feel through the flexible eZ publish override mechanism. eZ publish may look daunting at first but you must persevere. Believe me this system is very well thought out. It is well worth your time reading the concepts and basics at http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_6/concepts_and_basics and looking at the flash tutorials at http://ez.no/products/ez_publish_open_source_enterprise_cms/demo/flash_demos www.jegodesigns.com www.jegodesigns.eu
Betsy Gamrat	Saturday 28 July 2007 6:01:57 am This post is probably too late for Scott, but for later visitors, I second Andre's opinion that you should start with the tool that brings you closest to the end requirements of the target system. I think eZ publish is awesome, and I would recommend it for virtually any site that needs content management. I wouldn't use it to run a social network or community portal. By the same token, I wouldn't try to use social network software as a content management system.
Andreas Kaiser	Saturday 28 July 2007 9:11:49 am Perhaps ezp is not a out of the box solution for community portals, but there are examples that ezp can handle community portals: http://ez.no/products/partner_products/volano_community_portal http://web.ymc.ch/loesungen/volano_community_portal eZ Partner in Madrid (Spain) Web: http://www.atela.net/
Betsy Gamrat	Thursday 02 August 2007 8:19:12 pm I think you could build absolutely anything with eZ. I consider its strengths the robust functionality delivered out of the box, the template system, structured content management, its reliability, the architecture of the software, these forums ... :) The deciding factor in many instances is not "can I do it?", but "is it a good idea?", or more commonly, "is it cost-effective?" Only you can decide. Good luck.