Practical Plone 3 : a beginner's guide to building powerful websites / Alex Clark ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Alex.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web site development.

Open source software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (592 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, U.K. : Packt Publishing Ltd., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A beginner's practical guide to building Plone websites through graphical interface

Contents:

Cover; Practical Plone 3; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; Table of Contents; Preface; Part 1: Background; Chapter 1: Introducing Plone; What is a content management system?; What is Plone?; Plone: the product; Plone: the framework; Plone: the community; Online; In the real world; What does it mean that Plone is open source?; Planning your web site; Summary; Chapter 2:Installing Plone; Background; Installing on Windows; Running the Windows installer; Running Plone; Setting ports; Customizing startup; The installation layout; Installing on Mac OS X; Running the installer

Finishing up Starting and stopping Plone; Installing on Linux; Installation options; Preparing your system; Downloading and unpacking the Unified Installer; Running the Unified Installer; Starting and stopping Plone; Installation from source; The software stack: Python, Zope, and Plone; Traditional source install; Testing your installation; Summary; Chapter 3:A Brief Tour Of Plone; Logging into a Plone based site; Portlets; Navigating the home page; User link; Personal dashboard; Dashboard edits; Tabs on the Home page; Home tab; Users tab; News; My folder; Summary; Part 2: I want to...

Chapter 4:Create Web Pages Viewing site contents; Adding a new page; Title; Body Text; Using the formatting tools; Bold and Italics; Numbered and bulleted lists; Definition list; Using the style menu; Saving your work; Editing a page; Edit all parts of a page; Edit a single part of a page; Using full screen mode; Creating hyperlinks; Internal Links; External Links; Linking to a specific part of a page: anchors; Defining the anchors; Linking to an anchor from a different page; Linking to an anchor on the same page; Working with images; Uploading an image; Inserting an image on a Page

Preparing images for the web Controlling the layout of a page: tables; Publishing your work; Publishing a page; Publishing multiple pages; Publishing a folder; Summary; Chapter 5:Add News Items, Events, Links, and Files; News items; Creating a news item; The news folder; Events; The events folder; Creating events; Using the vCal and iCal links; Links; Files; Adding a file; Summary; Chapter 6:Structure Your Content; Real world information architecture tips; Structuring your content; Adding Collections to your site; Restricting types of content; Moving content; Changing the order of pages

Summary Chapter 7:Safely Manage Different Versions Of Content; Introducing versioning; Viewing the version history; Previewing previous versions; Comparing versions; Reverting to a previous version; Summary; Chapter 8:Delegate Content Management to Other People; Creating users and groups; Creating a user; Allowing users to register themselves; Creating users with initial passwords; Roles and permissions; Reader; Reviewer; Manager; Using groups to control security; Creating groups; Assigning roles to specific places in your site; Summary

Chapter 9:Manage Approvals and Other Workflow for my Content

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-282-00880-3

9786612008801

1-84719-179-7

OCLC:

821183625