Andy McKay is a principal of Enfold Systems and an active contributor to a variety of Python-based open source projects.
Meer over Andy McKayPlone is one of the most successful open-source content management systems so far; its features are broad and powerful, as you'll see in this book. This book covers everything you'll need to know about Plone, with lots of Plone's features and create your own powerful web applications.
After getting started with Plone's installation and basic functionality, this book dives under the hood of Plone and show you all these great features:
- Customizing workflow to alter the way your Plone site works
- Making your Plone site look different, with in-depth examples and details
- Adding and manipulating documents and images on your site
- Integrating Plone with Microsoft Office, apache, LDAP, and other systems
- Building scalable Plone sites
This book assumes you know HTML, CSS, and the web. For some of the more advanced Plone features, you'll also find knowledge of Python helpful. Plone is one of the fastest-growing open-source content management systems available, and it's also one of the best looking. I've found that even the most mundane applications is more successful if its looks good. Therefore this book shows you how to produce applications quickly and simply, and it also ensures that they look good.
