Practical Plone 3: A Beginner's Guide to Building Powerful Websites - Softcover

Clark, Alex; Parker, Clayton; Hanning, Darci; Convent, David; DeStafano, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847191789 ISBN 13: 9781847191786

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Plone is a highly extensible content management system built on Zope application server, which is written in Python. But, you need to have good programming skills to design and develop Plone web applications. Does that mean you can't have a Plone website if you don't have good programming skills? Of course not! You can develop your Plone websites through a graphical interface where you don't need to fiddle with code. This book will give you clear understanding of how to use Plone 3 to meet your content management needs. Starting from the basics, this book will walk you through the easy-to-use features of Plone and help you create a feature-rich website through its point-and-click feature. A variety of authors have contributed chapters to this book in the hope that you, the reader, will get a good understanding of Plone and be able to use it effectively. This beginners' guide will introduce the great CMS and its features and then take you further in web development. The book will introduce you to Plone's advanced UI features and show you how to create such a UI platform for your website. You will learn how to manage the contents like web pages, news items, and so on. Working with custom portlets will help you enhance the web components for your site. Each chapter will show you how to add features to your site and develop its functionality. Each chapter can be read independently; you need not go through the previous one to continue further. You can pick and choose the topics depending on your interest and requirement. If you were waiting for a book that would teach you the basics of Plone web development with no programming involved and then make you go live, wait no further.

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About the Author

Sam Knox hails from Seattle, Washington where he works as the Support Manager for ONE/Northwest – a consulting group that focuses on helping environmental non-profits adopt and effectively use online technology. ONE/Northwest has served hundreds of organizations in the Pacific Northwest and beyond over the last 12 years. Sam regularly conducts Plone trainings and writes end user documentation for a wide variety of audiences and skill levels. He is also primarily responsible for the highly successful online Plone documentation web site, learnplone.org.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847191789
• ISBN 13: 9781847191786
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 565