CMS recommendations?

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
>Kurt Wall wrote:
>>On Wednesday 22 June 2005 13:29, Michael Hipp enlightened us thusly:
>>
>>>Bill Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, Jun 22, 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
>>>>
...
>>Zope is the platform for building a CMS; Plone exists on top of Zope
>>and provides the CMS apparatus. It's still up to you to flesh it out.
>>We're using Plone for the TimeSys Developer Exchange 
>>(http://developer.timesys.com/).
>>
>>Plone's learning curve has been steep vis-a-vis customization, but I 
>>wouldn't have been able to get nearly as far if all I had was Zope.
>
>I think I'll give Plone a try, if for no other reason than there are no 
>less than 3 in-print books available about it. The "marketing" message on 
>their site certainly indicates they view themselves as a top notch CMS: 
>"Plone: A user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System".

I **HIGHLY** (a little structured text eh :-)  recommend Andy McKay's book
``The Definitive Guide to Plone''.  It is very well done with good
examples, and logical explanations of how to work with Plone.

I did a presentation to the Seattle Unix Group shortly after convering
their web site to Plone last year.  This gives some basics.

	http://www.seaslug.org/Members/bill/Presentations/2004_07/

Bill
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