Friday 03 July 2009 3:47:48 pm
"Frankly the learning curve seems very steep for something that purports to be easy." M Wright To me, up until now, the learning curve seems to be a vertical one. I know that, if one has the impression that a road is vertical, it's a clear sign he has drunk too much. However, as eZ Publish is so difficult, I never drink during the last 24 hours before tampering with it.
Yes, with eZ Publish, publishing is easy. As coolscreen.de states at http://www.coolscreen.de/portfolio/ecms_anwendungen/ecms_ez_publish/typo3_ez_publish, one hour of training is sufficient for most editors, whereas this takes very much more time with TYPO3. By the way, for all those who consider TYPO3 to be at the same enterprise level as eZ Publish, Coolscreen makes a clear statement at the same page. I translate: "TYPO3 is for Internet pages, so for web content management. eZ Publish is about content in general, be it for the Internet, printing, Flash, WAP, or mobile devices. This means that eZ Publish plays in another ligue than TYPO3." But as far as I know, eZ Systems did never state that learning to develop websites with eZ Publish is easy as well. Keeping the entry level for eZ Publish high has its advantage as well as its drawback. The advantages is that it will incite some people to spend (lots of) money, going from acquiring a book (which is outdated after 6 months), to work with eZ partners, or to subscribe a commercial license. The drawback is that probably many people, after having spend more or less hours to realize the huge investment in time (= money) learning eZ Publish requires, simply drop it. This is sad for eZ Systems, as well as for the people concerned.
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