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A collection of instructions and links to helpful sites for posting, editing and customizing a Plone website. If you don't find what you need here, Google your question.

Plone 3.0 User Manual
A User Manual for Plone content creators and managers. Created for end users, not site developers.
An imym.org Primer for Posting Files and Creating Pages and Links
This is our own simple how-to for posting. Adapted for the new Plone 3.0, but not fully tested.
Link to LearnPlone!
This end-user documentation is written for the clients of a Plone site developer, and includes procedures, tutorials, definitions. Excellent source of how-tos.
Creating a Web Page with Kupu Editor
 
Plone Topics for Web Clerks and Managers
Topics for the Web Clerks and others with manager roles in specific folders.
Customization Log for imym.org
This is the JWM log of customizing actions for imym.org to date, beginning from September 2006 with migtation to Plone 2.5, and moving on into 3.0 in Fall 2007.
Customization Log for Design.imym.org
Customizations date from Aug. 2008 when the design.imym.org. subdomain was created. Some additional customization changes may have been made during use. Only changes of initial settings are listed. These should not be taken as a complete list of settings. Managers of design.imym.org are invited to change these settings in the normal course of exploration and testing to obtain the desired site appearances and functions. (8/21/08)
Adding HTML Files to Display as Web Pages
A how-to prepared by Bob Gaines.
How to Install Custom Logo
Includes one method for creating a suitable graphics file (.jpg) that contains text.
How to Manage Portlets in Plone 3.0
 
Creating an Owner of a Primary Workspace: A Case Study
Howto for giving a Member control over a workspace (folder) housed in the Home folder so that it shows up in the main menu. 03 08
Find IP Address Information
A site that provides Domain Name and country of origin name for numerical IP addresses. This is useful to identify the hosts for the imym.org visitors reported on Site Statistics.
How To for Importing Excel Tables into Word Files
Useful for compiling reprt attachments into a single Word document in preparation for printing as a pdf. (09/26/07)
How to Build a Plone Site
This how-to by Humaninet was written for Plone 2.1.5, but is probably still pretty good for Plone 2.5 and later. At least a general guide.
Adding a New Plone Site to IMYM.ORG
 
Default Role Assignments for a Plone 3.0.3 Download
These are the roles assigned in an out-of-the-box 3.0.3 package. They may or may not be the exact default settings for our 3.0 site.
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