We have identified a free open source product that can be used as a turnkey web development framework for epublishing. Check out this web based software from this Norwegian company (www.ez.no)

If your company needs a publishing website then consider having Stylus Systems, Bangalore India, install and modify this product for you. It would be a very cost effective solution for entrepreneurs or companies.

Examples of Use

• Website to sell e-books, articles or other digital documents
• Framework for corporate Intranet/portal - editing, collaboration, version control
• Online ezine with writers and editors working from a distance
• Website for community/domain interaction, reviewing and discussing published articles
• Ecommerce web site selling download digital products - photos, PDF, POD books, etc
• Corporate website for knowledge management
• News publishing website - newspaper, magazine, journals etc
• College or hometown newspaper

Intranets, x-tranets, websites or e-commerce solutions are some of your possibilities with eZ publish. You will save money and increase your profits as your organization work and communicate more efficiently internally, but also externally with your customers, partners and community.

eZ publish is made to benefit two main groups of people. The first group are people who want to publish content to the web and eZ publish makes this process as simple as possible. The other group is the web application developers. They can use eZ publish as a framework to create dynamic web applications. The eZ publish framework is comprehensive and you can choose whether to use the entire package or only different parts of it. E.g. you can just use the XML parser or SOAP communication library. Another possibility is to build a site on top of eZ publish doing only template customization. No programming is necessary to set up a web page, only template changes and configuration are needed.

Using eZ publish you will quickly be able to build dynamic sites which are easy to use and extend. Since eZ publish is licenced under the GPL open source licence and the eZ publish professional licence it is possible to create everything from small personal sites to large enterprise web applications.

A Few Features (from www.ez.no)

• As a Content Management System (CMS) it's most notable feature is its revolutionary, fully customizable and extendable content model.
• eZ publish is optimized for search engines and has flexible design and layout possibilities.
• E-commerce: Powerful integrated e-commerce functionality.
• Flexible development framework: Build about any web solution with eZ publish.
• With the collaboration functionality you can work together with other people or delegate tasks to others.
• eZ publish 3, does also have a plug in editor for simplified content editing. Making headers, bold or italic text, tables, links or adding pictures has never been easier.
• Product management
• Order management
• Credit card integration interface
• Shopping basket
• eZ publish is LAMP software, meaning it is based on Linux, Apache, MySQL/PostgreSQL and PHP. It also runs on Windows (Win32) and Mac OS X and most other platforms.
• All changes to data in eZ publish 3 is version controlled and stored. This way you keep track of all changes in an article, product, users etc.
• eZ publish supports having different languages at your site. All text/labels are stored in industry standard XML language files and are easily translated using linguist translation program.
• The integrated search engine can search and find all your content.
• The access permissions are specified by roles.

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