Lets assume that you are approached by members of a local chess club called "The Scandinavian Check Mates", TSCM for short. This is basically a small community that consists of approximately 40 chess fanatics. The club has a homepage for several years now, which was made by a former TSCM member. Unfortunately, this member has moved to the other side of the planet and has no intention of maintaining the TSCM webpages. Because of the increasing popularity of the internet and the club itself, the members have decided that something should be done with the site, which currently looks a bit "outdated".

The club members have no experience with web development. However, they all know how to use a computer. Lately, they've been surfing around the internet, and have come up with a temporary/preliminary list of requirements for a new club-site:

• It should look slick & fancy, but not too bloated.
• It should be easy to maintain/update and extend the site.
• There should be a page with news bulletins.
• A list of members should be included.
• It would be nice to have a guestbook of some sort.
• A page with links to external chess or educational sites should be included.

What we have here is a typical situation where an organization needs a new website. The club members have been inspired by looking at various sites on the internet and have a fairly good idea of what they want. However, keep in mind that this is only a preliminary list of requirements. An experienced developer should already have a gut feeling, telling that the club certainly will come up with new requests along the way. In other words, we should be flexible throughout the entire development process. Fortunately, flexibility and dynamic behavior are some of the key features of eZ publish. Within a couple of hours, we shall deliver a powerful, dynamic, modern and expandable web solution that could be easily changed to suit any kind of small/mid-sized community.