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title: "Guide"
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description: "A developer's guide to PageSeeder covering installation, configuration, document management, data modeling, and publishing capabilities with the Publish engine."
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# The Guide

This article provides guidance for finding out more about how PageSeeder works and where to find further developer information on this site. The information is written for developers and assumes that readers have an appropriate level of technical background.

The guide is divided into the following topics:

- [Installation](/guide/installation.md)

Instructions on how to install and upgrade PageSeeder and the *[Publish engine](/reference/glossary/publish_engine.md).* Includes [Release notes](/guide/installation/release_notes.md).

- [Configuration](/guide/configuration.md)

Other general configuration information to help get the maximum out of PageSeeder.

- [Documents](/guide/documents.md)

The templates, style sheets and configuration items to control the display, editing and processing of documents.

- [Data modeling](/guide/document_modeling.md)

Understanding PageSeeder primitives, objects and processes and how to use them for expressing requirements.

- [Publishing](/guide/publishing.md)

An overview of the batch API to export, publish and process documents.