Build website with Plone

About Plone

Plone is easy to use open source CMS. It allows non technical users easily add and edit content. Visual editor help them to create rich text. By few clicks one can add a new page, news, event or upload document. But this is just the small chunk of possibilities. Additional modules provide polls, forums, blogs, newsletters, articles, press centres and many more.

Features

• Plone is very easy to use. You don't need technical skills to update your website. No more calls to IT department or your website provider. Just log in and you can add documents, news, events yourself.
• Plone speaks your language. It's interface is translated to 35 languages. It supports even "strange" character sets like Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Hindi, Urdu ect.
• Plone follows standards. Pages are valid HTML and display is totally controled via CSS.
• Plone is accessible. Pages are compliant with US Section 508, and the W3C's AAA rating for accessibility.
• Plone is Web 2.0.New support for Ajax technologies makes editing even easier than before.
• Plone is Open Source. This gives you the right to use Plone without a license fee, and to improve upon the product.
• Plone is supported. There is a big community that improves it day by day. Also many companies offer Plone support.
• Plone is extensible. There is a multitude of add-on products to add new features and content types. Also you can hire a company for bespoken Plone development
• Plone is technology neutral. System can interoperate with most relational database systems, open source and commercial, and runs on a vast array of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and BSD.

Other resources

Plone technical capabilities
Plone description by Joel Burton