The Definitive Guide to Plone

Author : Andy McKay
Pages : 584
ISBN : 1590593294
Publisher : Apress
Publication Date : February 22, 2006
Free License : Creative Commons License

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Book Summary:

A company without a Web site is unthinkable—and most companies and organizations have more than one site. Whether it's an external site for communicating with clients, an intranet for employees to use, or a site for direct client communication and feedback, all Web sites have a common problem—how to manage the content on them. This is a challenge that can often cost organizations large amounts of time and effort. Producing a powerful yet flexible system for these sites that meets ever-changing requirements while growing to meet your company's emerging needs isn't easy.

No matter what the requirements for your Web site are or the amount of content or users, Plone is a user-friendly, powerful solution that lets you easily add and edit any type of content through the Web, produce navigation and searches for that content, and apply security and workflow to that content.

Plone enables you to put together almost any Web site and easily update it. This lets you build content-rich sites quickly so you can gain a competitive advantage. Finally, probably the best things about this system are that it's free and it's open source. With its large and impressive feature set, it's comparable, if not better than, many closed-source content management systems that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The Definitive Guide to Plone is the authoritative, unique guide to Plone, describing everything from installing Plone (on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux) to writing code for the system. The book - part of Apress’s library of Python programming and content management tools, and written by one of Plone’s core development team - emphasizes the customization of Plone, and shows how to fully integrate Plone into an existing Web site and application. If you want to adopt Plone for some or all of its features, this is the book to pick up and learn by.

Reviews:

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"Though not without it's flaws this book is a very well organized and written walkthrough on using Plone from installation, to development and through to installation. It's clear the author knows a great deal about Plone and he knows how to convey it in a clear and concise manner."

"Andy McKay's book is exactly what I needed to fill the gap in my understanding of Plone."

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