Plone Pros & Cons today

[Janet Jaffke]

We're in the process of evaluating Plone as our new CMS and we'd love to get the feedback of the community that is actively using it.

Pros and Cons of the system anyone? Your input is truely valuable.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Janet

[Mike Takahashi]

Hi Janet,

 

At UCLA we have a large group of departments/organizations using Plone. Here are two important things to consider:

1. For the end-user, Plone is an amazing tool. Its in-context editing and management is so intuitive and allows users with little to no technical knowledge edit and maintain sites.  For the sites that I manage, I literally train users for about 1 hour and they are off and running.  I usually never hear back from them again.
2. There is still a big learning curve if you plan on developing and integrating Plone.  It depends on how much customization you will want, but eventually you'll need to learn the framework that is Zope/Python to do any considerable customization.

Mike

[Janet Jaffke]

Thanks Mike, this is very helpful.

 

Janet