Core Software Group - Colorado-Based, Plone CMS Consultants

Core Software Group focuses its efforts on developing content management systems (CMS) that are based on, and revolve around two core, open source, and related frameworks: Zope and Plone.

Our development and integration efforts have been based on these two frameworks since the year 2000, and we believe them to be wildly powerful for delivering a range of services.

We provide:

• Custom Plone Development
• Custom website development
• Plone Hosting - for small and large sites
• Plone Support - help for any kind of Plone problem you may be having
• Plone Migration and Upgrades - help migrating from old releases, Plone 2 and Plone 3, to the latest Plone 4 release
• Plone Multilingual Sites and Content
• Hands on training and support for content managers and Plone developers

Tell me more about these frameworks

Plone (http://www.plone.org) is a very powerful open source content management system (CMS)

that runs on many platforms, and includes some of the following features:

• No licensing costs--open source
• WYSIWYG editor for managing pages/content
• A clean, out of the box user interface, plus the ability to create templates for custom look and feel and page layout
• Role based permissions and membership tools
• Membership management - allowing for easy, clean, visitor  self-registration, and for admins to manage login information for various types of users and types of applications, such as content managers, site members, extranet clients, etc.
• Workflow based content -- allowing for private, draft, and published content based on business rules and user roles, plus the ability to generate your own workflow definitions based on business logic
• Built-in support for managing multi-lingual content
• A catalog to allow for searching of all content
• Many add-on products, such as Newsletters, Blogs, Calendars, etc.
• Much, much, more...

Zope (http://www.zope.org) is a Python based application server.

From zope.org:

"Zope is an open source web application server primarily written in the Python programming language. It features a transactional object database which can store not only content and custom data, but also dynamic HTML templates, scripts, a search engine, and relational database (RDBMS) connections and code. It features a strong through-the-web development model, allowing you to update your web site from anywhere in the world."

Zope uses a technology called Page Templates (http://wiki.zope.org/zope2/PageTemplates) to define the template(s) for a page.  Page Templates brings together markup and Python to provide for a powerful templating architecture.

Where does your project fit?

We believe there are different types of web projects and applications that fit into the above two frameworks.  Each framework has its own strengths that apply to different projects.  Please contact us if you wish to discuss your project to see what the best fit is for you.