Regards:
Baruch Wachira
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: +31 6 123 86680 (Netherlands)
Websites: PrudentPressAgency.com, SkyNewswire.com, Rerian.com , IdeaOfL.com
- Plone: (Free, Open Source) Plone is an out-of-the-box ready content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope Application server. It requires minimal effort to set up, is deeply flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for a news website.
Useful links to Plone:
Homepage: http://plone.org
Download: http://plone.org/products/plone
Chat room and Help: http://plone.org/support/chat/irc
Free Plone addons: Reduces the need for additional programming:
http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products
- Pre-Designs: I have attached designs for the domains PrudentPressAgency.com and SkyNewswire.com. I require additional designs for Reriani.com and IdeaOfLife.com
- Similarity: Plone skins are written in the excellent HTML templating system, Zope Page Templates, and a large amount of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). With little knowledge of Plone, you can apply multiple skins, achieve multiple looks, and totally customize your Web site's appearance. PrudentPressAgency.com, SkyNewswire.com and IdeaOfLife.com are exact duplicates except for the designs or skins (formats, fonts, logos, colors and other aspects of the websites look and feel. They are to be designed completely in Plone. Reriani.com is a simple html and flash website different from the rest. I will refer to the three websites PrudentPressAgency.com , SkyNewswire.com and IdeaOfLife.com as "Plone news sites" in the remainder of this description.
- Registration: We require Plone features a complete user registration system. Users register with a Plone site using their own username, password, and any other information you might want to add about the user. You can then personalize the whole user interface for that user. In addition, with add-ons, you can use information you already have about users, coming from many places, such as relational databases, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Active Directory, and more
- Multiple workflows configurable on the website: Workflow controls the logic of processing content through the site. You can configure this logic through the Web using graphical tools. Site administrators can make sites as complex or as simple as they'd like; for example, you can add notification tools such as sending e-mails or instant messages to users. For every item of content in a Plone site, you can set up access control lists to decide who has access to that item and how they'll be able to interact with it. Will they be able to edit it, view it, or comment on it? All this is configurable through the Web. This really simplifies the tasks. I have downloaded the plone software and it is very user friendly.
- Website frames and Design: As in attached designs 5 frames (Top, Left, Middle and Right frame and Bottom)
- Login page design for plone websites users: http://prweb.com (On Right frame)
- Contents Home page/Middle frame: Exactly as http://prnewswire.com Middle frame (Today's Top Story, Latest News)
- Dropdown Examples: The top links at http://www.marketwire.com are goot examples.
- Stretch-out Examples: Just like dropdown but stretches to the left or right and NOT down. You will notice this at http://www.marketwire.com – Our Services –
- Pr Tuneups: This is our weekly FREE PR newsletter.
- Contents Top frame: Permanent Links: Home, About Us, Services (Dropdown etc, etc), Contact Us (Dropdown etc, etc), Search Box, PR Tuneups, Navigation (Dropdown etc, etc), Careers, RSS feed, MyYahoo,
- Contents Left Frame: Permanent links: Media services (Stretch out – Media Evaluation and Analysis, Press Release Writing, Press Release Distribution, Media Clipping Services, etc etc ), Newspaper Advertising (Stretch Out etc, etc), Webcasting, Event and Celebrity Sponsorships, News Categories (Stretch Out etc over 60 links), Rotating Advertiser Box,
- Contents Middle Frame: Format for news. Example: http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=170000 Client logo, Bold headline, By Prudent Press Agency or SkyNewswire.com stamp, Date of release, Summary of PR Body, Complete PR Body, Highlighted links (Relevant website of client), About the Client, Contacts of the Client, Comment and rate this Article (see point20 below), Back to the top (Each of these should have a separate form box when client logs in to their webadmin area to post the press release)
- Contents Right Frame: Login box (email and password) and Registration link exactly as at http://www.prweb.com/about.php, Rotating Advertiser box, 10 PR Tuneups headlines,Today's News 10 headlines, Testimonials
- Contents Footer: Home, Site Map, About Us, Privacy, Copyright, Terms of Use, PR Tuneups
- Registration Form for clients: Exactly as at: http://www.eworldwire.com/index.php?page=client_signup_fparty with all the fields.
- Press Release Form: Exact duplicate as: Follow the following instructions.
a) Go to: http://www.prweb.com/
b) Login with username: testing007 and password: 12345
c) Once logged in, on the right, click the link "Submit a New Release"
d) Exact as the form including the help links on the right called "Required
e) An additional field is a check box for "Free Submission" of "Make Payments"
f) With the Free Submission, it is posted awaiting webmaster approval befor appearing on the front. With Make payments, it takes the client to a page where he pays with either Worldpay ( http://worldpay.com/) or Paypal at ( http://www.paypal.com/ ) I have the html codes for each and can provide them if required.
19. Reference websites to build on: There are many additional features you can find on the following links, http://eworldwire.com , http://www.askmoses.com/ http://marketwire.com www.businesswire.com www.prnewswire.com www.usnewswire.com, http://www.send2press.com
20. Website visitors Comment and Rate this article: At the bottom of the following page you will find a very good link which should be on each PR article of PR Tuneups http://www.askmoses.com/article.html?h=405&o=240
Regards:
Baruch Wachira
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: +31 6 123 86680
Websites: PrudentPressAgency.com, SkyNewswire.com, Rerian.com , IdeaOfL.com
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