Announcing Practical Plone Book for Beginners!
Over the last year, a great deal of energy has gone into the writing of Practical Plone, the community's newest book geared for newcomers to Plone. In the last few weeks, I've had the pleasure of helping to shepherd the book out the door. With the assistance of our editors and authors, I'm happy to announce that we are one approximately one week away from going to print.
You can now pre-order your copy of the book here:
http://www.packtpub.com/building-plone-websites-through-the-graphical-interface/
Please note that although Packt has listed the book as Plone 3 TTW, it's final title is Practical Plone, a Beginner's Guide to Building Powerful Websites. The chapters featured in the book will include:
1. Introduction - Jon Stahl
What is a CMS? What is Plone, and where did it come from?
2. Installing Plone - Steve McMahon
Learn how to get Plone up and running on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
3. A brief tour of Plone - Tom Conklin
Get an overview of Plone's user interface and key features.
Part 2 - I want to...
4. Create Web Pages - Sam Knox
Learn how to create and publish web pages with Plone's built-in visual editor.
5. Add News Items, Events and Other Content - Tom Conklin
Learn about the other standard content types, such as news items, events, and files.
6. Structure the Content in My Site - Tom Conklin
Learn how to use folders and Collections to structure your content.
7. Safely Manage Different Versions of Content - Darci Hanning
Understand Plone's built-in versioning features.
8. Delegate Content Management to Multiple Users - Tom Conklin
Learn how to create users and groups and give them permissions over various parts of your site.
9. Manage Approvals and Other Workflow for My Content - Matt Bowen
Customize your security model by creating workflow.
10. Show Additional Information to Users and Site Visitors - Jon Stahl
Learn about Plone's Portlet features.
11. React to Changes in the Site Automatically - Alex Clark
Build intelligence into your content management with Content Rules.
12. Control My Site's Configuration in Detail - Alex Clark
Detailed explanations of the various Plone control panels.
Part 3 - Now that I've got the basics, I'd like to learn how to...
13. Preliminary Steps: Setting Up an Environment - Clayton Parker
Set up a development environment with various debugging tools.
14. Find and Install Add-ons That Expand Plone's Functionality - Steve McMahon
Learn how to find and install add-on components that are freely available online.
15. Build Forms - Jon Stahl (with Steve McMahon)
Create web forms quickly and easily.
16. Create New Content Types - Matt Bowen
Create custom content types to capture and manage specific information.
17. Customize Aspects of Plone - Veda Williams
Learn how to customize Plone's various UI components.
18. Change the Look-and-Feel - David Convent and Veda Williams
Create a custom theme for your site.
Part 4 - My boss wants me to...
19. Put My Site Live - Steve McMahon
Learn how to configure a live Plone server.
20. Make It Go Faster - Ricardo Newbery
Configure a web cache to make Plone faster.
21. Connect to our LDAP/Active Directory Repository - John DeStefano
Let your users log in with their existing usernames and passwords by connecting to an existing LDAP/Active Directory server.
Huge thanks to everyone who has participated, including the authors above and our last-minute editors:
Jon Baldivieso
Andrew Burkhalter
John DeStefano
David Glick
Calvin Hendryx-Parker
Sam Knox
Erik Rose
and of course, many thanks to the fantastic Martin Aspeli, who started this project.
I'm personally thrilled to have been part of this process, and hope this book fills an important niche. Please show your support to the Plone Foundation (which will get the royalties associated with the book) by picking up a copy, and please help us promote it over the coming weeks and months.
Thanks!
- Veda