Plone is a user-friendly, powerful content management system on Zope
Plone is suitable for servers, document publishing systems, portal servers, and differently collaborative group tools for internal web / external networks. A "universal" software product like Plone can actually be used in many ways. Unlike Zope, Plone can be installed directly for end users.
Plone originated in 2000, with Zope / CMF's powerful features and community leaders Limi and Runyan's organizational capabilities, Plone has developed rapidly and is recognized as the best open source content management system. Plone's users include a wide range of well-known customers in Germany, NASA.
In 2003, Plone was an O'Relly's preferred open source project representative participated in the Comdex conference, and became a black horse in the open source community.
Plone features
Convenient installation
You can easily click on a few minutes. You can do it on your computer to complete the installation.
user-friendly
Plone's development team includes a full-time availability design expert, which makes Plone more easily useful in adding, modifying, and maintenance.
globalization
The Plone interface is translated into more than 30 languages, including tools that manages multiple language content.
standard
Plone carefully follows the relevant availability and accessibility standards. Including Article 508 of the United States, as well as W3C AAA, and the best fact standards for web, such as XHTML and CSS.
Open source code
Plone uses GNU General Public License, and Linux identical license agreement. You can use Plone without having to pay any license fees and can be extended.
Service guarantee
The Plone Development Team has nearly 100 developers around the world, and a large number of professional companies offer Plone development, support and other business services.
Scalable
There are many additional products for Plone to add new features and content types. In addition, Plone can extends script through the web standard solution and open source language.
Technology neutral
Plone can interface with the vast majority of relational database systems (open source and closed source code), which can be run on a large number of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, and BSD.
Why choose Plone to establish a website system
Build internal and external websites using Plone, which is the most typical application of Plone.
Access your content anywhere
You can use a normal browser to access all information - Plone supports all browsers, including browsers on your phone. This means you can manage your inside and outside network from any place in the world.
Online editing
The website is updated directly in the website, and there is no need for any other tools, just a browser.
Design expert designed by availability
Since the user interface has been finely designed, employees can use too much training. The goal of Plone is to be able to use themselves.
Limit the use of the picture
The main goal is to reduce the use of pictures, which can concentrate on the content, no extra elements.
Strengthen collaboration
When editing and publishing content, you can authorize other participants to enter the project, Plone also supports version management and multi-stage content.
Convenient management and configuration
The management and configuration of the Plone is done directly on the web. When the system is set, it does not need to access the file system at all. This makes the system's management very safe: the worst case is the access to the Zope instance, they can't get anything outside of the "sandbox" running in Zope / Plone.
sign in
Plone is a single sign-in mechanism of a center so that users do not have to log in to each area separately. Safety is also centrally controlled, and it is easy to integrate with other user authentication methods of the company, regardless of the LDAP, Active Directory, Novell, Windows, UNIX / Linux, or other database-based authentication systems.
Accessibility
Some special considerations in the design process of the website, better support for visual obstacles or advanced skillsmen can be easily available.
Encourage ownership
Users add content, managers to manage. This makes the user to edit and add content, let them feel the right, which is conducive to encouraging the creation of the content. In turn, this makes more people often use the internal network.
