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Plone 3.3 Site Administration

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Plone 3.3 Site Administration

Overview of this book

In the past few years, we have seen some dramatic changes in the way Plone sites are being developed, deployed, and maintained. As a result, developing and deploying sites, changing their default settings, and performing day to day maintenance tasks can be a challenge. This book covers site administration tasks, from setting up a development instance, to optimizing a deployed production site, and more. It demonstrates how-to perform these tasks in a comprehensive way, and walks the user through the necessary steps to achieve results.We have divided the subject of Plone site administration into three categories: development, deployment, and maintenance. We begin by explaining how a Plone site is built, and how to start using it through the web. Next, we add features by installing add-on products, focusing on themes, blogging, and other common enhancements. After the basics of developing and deploying a Plone site are covered, the book covers the basics of maintaining it.Further, throughout the book we preview some new technologies related to Plone site administration, available now as add-ons to the current Plone release. Finally, we will cover a variety of techniques to help you optimize your site's performance.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Plone 3.3 Site Administration
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Staying calm when trouble arises


It is a harsh reality that while experimenting with your Plone buildout (such as adding various packages from the Python Package Index), things are more likely to go wrong than they are to go right.

Do yourself a favor and:

  1. Do not panic.

  2. Paste the error message to http://paste.plone.org.

  3. Join the #plone IRC channel on irc://irc.freenode.net/ and ask the folks in there if they understand the error.

  4. Alternatively, ask a question on the Plone users' mailing list on Sourceforge.net (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users).

A lot of times, what appears to be a cryptic error is actually not to the trained eye. It is important that you learn to tell the difference.

You can read more about the available support options for Plone on http://plone.org/support.

The Plone community is a thoughtful and generous one, so you will be welcomed and encouraged to learn!