Web Site Management Tools

Plone is a leading-edge content management system that is well suited to the needs of non-profit organizations, environmental organizations, educational organizations and network-building organizations. Plone's primary advantages are that it is:

1) Web-based content management system that allows a distributed staff to be able to access the tool and interact with the website in real-time.

2) Designed for non-technical content administrators so all staff that need access to updating all of the site or sections site can do so.  That includes adding web pages, adding photos and images, uploading MS Word Docs, PDFs, and other types of content.

3) Automatically manages menus and search functions so that the State will be able to modify the menus on the site in real-time and search results will be updated in real-time as content is added to the site such that the livesearch results and main search results will be updated without any delay as new content is created or exiting content modified or removed.

4) Automatically applies the page template to all new the  pages and folders so that you can focus on adding and organizing content.

5) Improves access by lowering technical expertise and by being web-based. Staff access, improves productivity, improves quality and timeliness of information, and lowers cost for staff needs regarding web content maintenance.

6) Improves end-user outcomes by being a highly standards-compliant product with extremely high end-user usability. In other words, people coming to the site can navigate, can find content, and can read that content on your site easily. 

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In addition to being a superb website management and content management system, Plone is also a superb application development platform.  Need a custom database or other web project implemented, Plone is a superb starting point.  Contact Paul for more info.