ez publish

is it any good?

[msampson]

going to migrate an online gallery from a static site to a CMS-driven one.

a reasonably intenstive period of surfing and discussing has persuaded me that ez publish is probably right for the job, but any last minute good/bad experiences would be useful.

thanks

miles

[Nick_W]

Have you seen this: [webmasterbase.com ]

I'm having awful trouble installing under RH8 and Apache 2.0 but I'm told it's welll worth the heartache ;)

Nick

[msampson]

yes, that's my primary text. our friend who wrote the article has a lovely way of making you feel like you must be a bit of a dummy if you can't follow his "simple to follow" instructions!

hence, planning to pay someone to set it all up for me.

would be interested to compare notes as you get started.

miles

[rmjvol]

I'm trying to do some optimization with an ezPublish site I mentioned here [webmasterworld.com].

It seems to be pretty nice for just publishing but my impression is still negative from a SEO standpoint.

rmjvol

[msampson]

i'm interested in what you say about flabby html and the difficulty of se optimisation.

my impression is that you have pretty tight control over the templates which you create with your own html. it also seems to cater for meaningful page titles, metadata and alt tags etc (altho not human readable urls).

if that's not true, it would definitely put me off.

what other problems do you see from a seo viewpoint?

miles

[rmjvol]

I'm not controlling ezpublish, the client wanted to retain control so I'm just telling him what to put where. I've commented about the bloated code in his pages & he's blamed that on the cms. As he seems fairly technical, I'm making an assumption that he's right & the cms is responsible.

He had told me that he had to write a little script or hack to have unique titles. The nav structure that's live has one page available under multiple urls. Again, my understanding is that ez Publish is responsible.

Still curious about the grey-ed out splash page. Looking forward to any new clues at dance time.

If you've seen contrary information about ezP, I'd really like to hear. I read a glowing review over at sitepoint & if onpage seo is easier than it looks, the system seem powerful.

Right now, onpage stuff looks more like an uphill battle, compared to static html pages.

rmjvol

[Nick_W]

I ditched it ;) -- Just don't have the patience....

I'm having more success with geeklog though, just got to hack all the html and see if I can get it to write the url's differently..

Nick