eZ Publish automatically generates nice URLs (called "virtual URLs") for each content node. You can also create custom node URL aliases. However, the main virtual URL is always generated from your object's name or title. Thus it is sometimes too long and affects all internal links. A new feature in 3.10 onwards enables you to create a specific attribute used for the automatically-generated virtual URL. In essence, it enables you to create your own permalink for the object, separate from the object's name or title.
This article is part two of two, following the first article on How to Give Your Site a Makeover. Here, we show you how you can customize the look of an eZ Publish Website interface site, based on the changes we have been making to ezsystems.ca.
This article takes you behind the scenes on how to change the look of your website with simple CSS modifications, based on the changes that we have been making to ezsystems.ca. The article is based on the assumption that your website is built with eZ Publish and based on the standard ezwebin extension, known as the Website Interface.
Numerous articles have been written on how to work on the design of an eZ Publish site, including detailed How to Skin an eZ Publish Now Site and the official Website Interface documentation. However, they do not mention the specific working environment -- that is, how to develop and test changes without breaking a live site. This article will show you how to set up an efficient environment to work on customizing eZ Publish, based on what we did for ezsystems.ca.
At the same time that we are building our eZ Systems North American site, we are also publishing a series of articles on the global eZ site about configuring eZ Publish. The first article in the series, written by our own Peter Keung, is called "How to Configure an eZ Publish Site", and describes how to tweak and customize a newly installed instance of eZ Publish.
