Preface

Plone makes it easy to build and maintain powerful, user-friendly websites with cutting-edge collaboration and content management features. Thousands of companies, nonprofits, educational institutions, government agencies, and individuals around the world use Plone to power their websites.

Plone's out-of-the-box features, along with hundreds of free, open-source add-on Products, make it easy to build feature-rich, high performance public websites, intranets, extranets and custom web applications. Plone's wide-ranging feature set includes:

Plone is developed and supported by a worldwide community of thousands of individuals and hundreds of companies. The Plone Foundation, a nonprofit organization comprised of Plone community members, administers its intellectual property and trademarks.

Plone is written in Python, the popular, powerful, and easy-to-use programming language used by Google and thousands of other companies around the world. Plone uses the Zope web application server, and runs equally well on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux/Unix.

This book will help you to get a Plone-powered website up and running. It covers everything from downloading and installing Plone, to using Plone to create and manage web content, to customization of Plone's functionality and visual appearance, and finally, to deploying your site "in the wild". Like Plone itself, this book is a community effort, with various Plone community members contributing chapters.