Plone Training
Quintagroup offers a full-range Plone training courses for
organizations or companies. Our Plone training courses are
made in such a way that after attending them you will be able
to configure
Plone Content Management System (CMS) to meet your needs.
Quintagroup Plone training will take the basic user through the key aspects of using an average Plone site. We can start with introducing you to the basics of the Plone interface. Then we can cover key concepts both general to all Content Management Systems and specific to Plone. We will also touch upon a few more advanced concepts that will help you understand what you can do with Plone. We will explore how to leverage Plone as a powerful Content Management system by understanding how it works, what addon products are available, how to leverage the Plone community, and how to get effective help from Plone developers.
We can offer basic training for end-up users, intermediate training for website managers, or advanced training for developers and IT team. These are training courses geared towards those persons who will be using the site or who are advocating for new features to be implemented on the site. Our instructors have been using and developing Plone and have a deep understanding of how the system works, and how to get the most of it. With Plone diverse toolset and our experience in Plone development, Quintagroup can help you to take your site to a quite a new level.
Quintagroup Plone training will take the basic user through the key aspects of using an average Plone site. We can start with introducing you to the basics of the Plone interface. Then we can cover key concepts both general to all Content Management Systems and specific to Plone. We will also touch upon a few more advanced concepts that will help you understand what you can do with Plone. We will explore how to leverage Plone as a powerful Content Management system by understanding how it works, what addon products are available, how to leverage the Plone community, and how to get effective help from Plone developers.
We can offer basic training for end-up users, intermediate training for website managers, or advanced training for developers and IT team. These are training courses geared towards those persons who will be using the site or who are advocating for new features to be implemented on the site. Our instructors have been using and developing Plone and have a deep understanding of how the system works, and how to get the most of it. With Plone diverse toolset and our experience in Plone development, Quintagroup can help you to take your site to a quite a new level.
Plone Content Management Workshop
- What is a Content Management System?
- Tour of the standard Plone user interface
- Discussion of all of the tools available in the Plone control panel
- The basics of being a logged in user
- Managing a Plone site
- Authoring and editing content using text editor Kupu
- Adding images and resizing them for fit and place them on the page
- Workflow fundamentals
- Knowing when to use Plone
- Having a Plone site built
- Looking at all the default content types that come with Plone (News, Event, File, Page, Link, Smart Folder) and discussion how they are to be used
- Use of the search tool to find the content you are looking for
- Leveraging the Plone community
- Creating new users and groups, review and approve submitted content
- Discussion of best practices for information architecture, creating smart folders and using SmartPortlets for the display of dynamic content throughout your site
- Showing how to make simple changes in the ZMI (such as adding and removing portlets)
- Integrating various popular Plone products into your website to enable group collaboration , full-text searching , multimedia content , multi-lingual content , versioning , mailing lists , discussion forums , etc.
Plone Multilingual Website Workshop
- LinguaPlone product as a tool to manage and maintain multilingual content that integrates seamlessly with Plone
- Organization the structure of multilingual website
- Known usability issues
- Organizing news, events, forms, photogallery on multilingual website
- Switch language options
Plone Skin Development Workshop
- Learn how to build a customized Plone skin to change the look'n'feel of your Plone site
- building flexible Plone skins preserving ability to change basic skin attributes easily.
- Starting out with Photoshop mockups, we will create the templates and CSS, and ultimately an installable product using Plone Skin Dump.
- Creation of cross-browser compatible Plone skins, IE workarounds.
Plone SEO Workshop
- Optimizing of Plone sites into search engines
- Increasing the total number and quality of visitors from search engines
- Using our Plone Search Engine Optimizer Plone product to optimize original or custom Plone content types
- Blogging with Plone. Using our custom Plone Blog product to enhance visibility in search engines. How to use Plone Search Engine Optimizer to improve Plone Blog. Use of trackbacks in blogs.
- Selection of keyword phrases for target website. Keyword Research
- Content Optimization (HTML and Title tags).
- Site architecture improvement
- URL's in website improvement
- Use of Plone Google Sitemaps product that allows Plone websites to get better visibility for Google search engine by providing it with complete listing of URLs to website content
Plone Workshop for System Administrators
- Plone site hosting practices
- Infrastructure design for scalability and fault tolerance, ZEO and pound for load balancing and high availability, Squid and CacheFu for caching, logging/monitoring, database packing, backups and writing command line scripts.
- Basics of Plone and Zope while focusing on system support and administration tasks needed to keep this system running smooth.
Plone Training for Developers
- Building your own customized products for Plone
- Learning Archetypes, form controller
- Debugging
- Developing products using the latest Zope 3 technologies.