Content Management with Plone: Handbook for Authors and Editors - Thomas Lotze

Content Management with Plone: Handbook for Authors and Editors is the first guide specifically for Plone users. While other Plone books target developers and system administrators, Content Management with Plone is the only guide to put content creators and editors first, providing what they need to get started with one

Content Management with Plone: Handbook for Authors and Editors is the first guide specifically for Plone users. While other Plone books target developers and system administrators, Content Management with Plone is the only guide to put content creators and editors first, providing what they need to get started with one of the world?s most popular and powerful open-source content management systems.

The book also is a support tool for trainers. The tutorial section can serve as workshop material, while the reference section can complete trainers? own knowledge of Plone?s functions.

Content Management with Plone has been updated to cover Plone 2.1 and is useful even with customized installations. Contents include:

• A comprehensive tutorial
• The basics of Plone
• Explanation of standard content types
• Understanding members, roles and groups
• Working with content
• Using the publication workflow
• Using the visual editor

Authors Thomas Lotze and Christian Theune develop Zope and Plone applications for gocept, a software engineering firm in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Theune also is a core developer of Zope and chair of the board of the German Language Zope User Group. Content Management with Plone: Handbook for Authors and Editors is the English translation of their German book, Content Management mit Plone: Handbuch für Autoren und Redakteure. It is published in the United States by Enfold Systems, a firm led by Plone cofounder Alan Runyan and specializing in products and services that make Plone easier to adopt.