Plone Usability Makes It As Easy As ABC

  I just feel obliged to share my experience of working with Plone. It’s not normal that so many people have never heard about this content management system. It shouldn’t be this way, and I’m going to give you the clinching proves supporting this point of view.

When I came into Quintagroup office in the search for a job, I had not even the slightest idea about Plone and the opportunities it gives. Having been acquainted with this system, I’ve come to realise that even a non-professional can easily grasp the basic things about Plone as it is really user-friendly. And as far as I know, with every passing year Plone developers are making this system much simpler. If this tendency grows in a similar vein, in a couple of years every child would be able to use Plone. Being easily understood by people from widely different backgrounds and with very different skills, Plone provides a stable and useful platform for managing content and building web applications.

    Not long ago the mere thought about making my own site seemed absolutely unthinkable to me. It terrified me to death ‘cause I was sure it would take so much time and money! And only now it finally dawned on me that due to Plone miracles can happen. Not just because Plone is licensed under a common open-source license GPL, that allows anyone to use the source for free. What is amazing about Plone is that it breaks all imaginable bounds and limitations! And it does save time!

The reasons why I am making such conclusions are the following:

• Plone can be viewed in all kinds of browsers, which means that you can manage your intranet and public web site from a web browser anywhere in the world

• No specialised tools are needed for the web site updating, just a web browser.

• The main goal of Plone content management system is focusing on the information, but not on the irrelevant elements.
• An opportunity to assign other participants local roles within projects while editing and publishing content considerably facilitates collaboration

• The administration and configuration of Plone is done through the web, and no access to the file system is needed after the system is set up. This makes for a very secure system

• Plone has a centralized sign-on mechanism, which prevents users from having to log on to each area separately

• Plone lets the web design adjust flexibly to users with impaired eyesight and/or motor skills challenges
• Plone lets the users feel ownership towards the intranet, and encourages content production.

• A large active community supports development of additional add-ons and products based on Plone

    However, the list of Plone advanages given above is far from being complete and those are not the only things which make Plone so user-friendly. You’ll find it out as soon as you start working with Plone. It would be no exaggeration to state that you’ll love Plone with all your heart and soul and mind and being.