CHAPTER 1Introducing Plone
Plone is a content management system (CMS)—a platform that lets you build content-rich sites very quickly; it is built on top of Zope, a powerful web application server written in Python (see Figure 1-1). Plone is open source software licensed under the General Public License (GPL), which ensures freedom to users as well as developers. Most importantly, Plone is a user-friendly, powerful solution that lets you add and edit any kind of content through the Web, produces navigation and searches for that content, and applies security and workflow to that content.
Plone enables you to put together almost any web site and easily update it. It is easily customizable and extensible; there are many add-on products you can ...
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