The documentation is divided into several chapters. Each chapter covers a specific topic or a collection of related topics. Please note that some of the chapters may be a bit outdated and can contain duplicate information. These chapters (configuration, customization, development) will be fixed within the near future. Some chapters may disappar or will be merged into other chapter(s). The following text contains a list of the available chapters along with a short description of each chapter.

General information

This chapter is targeted at people who are new to eZ publish and would like to know what it is and how it can be used. It also contains some information about the history of eZ publish and the company behind it. Information about the state and structure of the documentation itself is also located in this chapter.

Installation

This chapter explains how eZ publish can be installed using different installation methods on various operating systems. It also covers related topics such as upgrade and removal.

eZ publish basics

This chapter describes the basic terms, models, structures and building blocks of eZ publish. In order to understand and be able to use eZ publish correctly, a person must know the basics.

Building an eZ publish site

This chapter is basically a step-by-step tutorial that explains how to build an eZ publish site from scratch. It is targeted at people who have little or no previous experience with eZ publish, but have some generic knowledge about web development.

Day to day use

This chapter is supposed to be an end-user documentation. It is targeted at users who have an eZ publish site up and running. It covers topics that are closely related to the administration interface: publishing, searching and version management. It will probably be renamed to "The administration interface" and will be a bit reorganized/face-lifted at some point.

Configuration

This chapter covers topics related to the setup/configuration of eZ publish. However, this chapter is old and somewhat outdated. It will be reorganized and updated within the near future.

Customization

This chapter is targeted at eZ publish site developers. The chapter covers topics related to customization of eZ publish (no programming is involved). This chapter is a bit old and somewhat outdated. It will be reorganized and updated within the near future.

Development

The development chapter is targeted at system developers who need to extend eZ publish by doing some sort of programming. It covers the creation of extensions as of new modules, datatypes, template operators, etc. This chapter is old and somewhat outdated. It will be reorganized and updated within the near future.

Reference

This chapter is new (as of February, 2004). It will contain complete reference documentation for all template operators, template functions, modules and their views, available datatypes, content classes, etc. The structure of this chapter will be set up by eZ systems. To begin with, community members will not be able to reorganize the structure within this chapter. They will only be able to modify existing pages. In addition to the topics described above, this chapter will also include other relevant information, for example a complete reference manual for all configuration settings, etc.

Incoming

This chapter is dedicated to incoming/new documentation that is mainly written by community members. The moderators will move contributions to the right place (if any). This is also the place where community members can test and learn to use the interactive documentation system.