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Plone Content Management Essentials |  | Author: Julie C. Meloni
Publisher: Sams
Category: Book
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Pages: 258
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0672326876
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Publication Date: October 16, 2004
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Product Description
Plone Content Management Essentials is a practical and thorough hands-on guide to using the powerful open-source content website publishing system, Plone. With this book as your guide, you will thoroughly understand how and when to utilize Plone, as well as how to install, configure and maintain a Plone-based website. You'll also be able to download the latest Plone installation from our website so that you can apply what you learn in the book. No prior knowledge of Plone is required to learn from this book, but it will enhance what you takeaway.
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 Excellent book for an excellent CMS November 21, 2004
Lisa
This book is extremely readable. Concise and to the point. It gave me only the information I needed to do what I wanted to do. Perfect. All the other documentation I've found on Plone has been mostly geared towards coders and developers. I've found it a headache wading through it all. This book explained how to do exactly what I wanted to do with plone - get my website up and running, with the content I wanted and the look I wanted.
A lifesaver, and an end to the headaches.
 "Getting started..." kind of a book November 29, 2004
Ales Kavsek (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
35 out of 35 found this review helpful
I bought this book together with McKay "The Definitive Guide to Plone" and all I can say is that they fit together nicely.
In the old days when software was delivered to you in a nice box with accompanying manuals, one of them was hopefully titled as "Getting started...", "Introduction to..." or "Quick guide to...". Julie's "Plone Content Management Essentials" is by all means *that* kind of the book in a 'missing box' for Plone.
As a complete Plone (Zope) newbie on my way to migrate some stuff from Movable Type intranet site, I needed quick, concise guide to get the general feeling about Plone features and the level of complexity involved (I already knew that Zope behind the Plone is a "beast" in it's own if compared to simple packages like MT) . With just 200+ pages this book helped me grasp the basic concepts behind the Plone CMS in a way, that I could build my prototype site in a few days. The chapters that I liked the most are chapter "4. Additional Plone Elements" describing Plone add-ons of immediate interest to me (CMFBoard, CMFPhotoAlbum and CMFWeblog) and chapter's 5 and 6 on customizing plone and implementing custom skin. The only objection that I have about the book is Appendix A., imho it's completely useless attempt on introduction to python language (it would make more sense to just publish the links to python online resources).
Book is geared towards complete Plone newbie's, even non-techies will not be easily lost, thanks to step-by-step approach and numerous screenshots. Nevertheless, I would strongly recommend that you also consider McKay "The Definitive Guide to Plone" which is in my opinion the most complete book about Plone on the market (but you'll certainly need more than a few days to digest it). Thank you for reading this review!
Make wikis and blogs November 2, 2004
W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
A popular open source Content Management System. Meloni suggests here in her book why it has proved so useful. If you read her book and have some familiarity with Microsoft's Office suite, then you can see what Plone offers. The various Microsoft applications, like MSWord, have very rich toolkits. But each application essentially handles single documents. Meloni shows that Plone's remit is at a higher level of organisation. More to do with workflow between several users.
Plus, these users need not be in one physical location. Plone lets a group distributed over the Internet work together. Plone can help enable new types of dispersed "multinationals" of just a few people.
The book also has merit in showing how to use Plone to construct wikis and blogs. Two topical subjects. And very closely related. So both are described in the same chapter. Daresay that some of you will find this the most useful section of the book.
Good introductory book January 27, 2005
D. Messer (MN USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
A good introduction to Plone. But, there are a few typographical errors in code samples that will send you on minor troubleshooting trips. The author also covers some add-ins that cause errors when you try to remove them, again, causing you to do some troubleshooting. Not all bad. A little troubleshooting helps you learn the system.
good, but outdated and unsupported December 29, 2006
JOHN DESTEFANO (NY, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you're looking to buy this book now for use with a modern incarnation of Plone, you may want to rethink your decision and look elsewhere. Aside from being written against Plone 2.0 (Plone is currently at version 2.5.1, with 3.0 looming in a few months), and thereby having some tips and instructions that no longer work as originally intended, the book includes some typographical errors (as do many books), a few of which are horrible and misleading. I've actually done everything from inquiring with the publisher regarding errata (you won't find any on the publisher's site for the book) and writing to volunteer the corrections myself (which went unanswered).
The book is an excellent introduction to Plone and quite helpful as a kick-starter, but I would not by any means recommend it for use as a "bible" for what Plone is, can do, and can be customized to do today.
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