The average client has no idea what Plone is, and they don’t really care. They won’t trust something they’ve never heard of, and there are plenty of other solutions out there that claim to offer the same things. Designers and developers, on the other hand, do care about Plone: an elegant, powerful, secure, scalable, and flexible solution to clients’ content management dilemmas. However, clients generally don’t care about the technical stuff – they just want to be online. It’s our job to tell them why Plone is the way to go. In this talk, we share what we’ve learned about selling Plone to people who don’t care over the last 15 years.
Just like a lizard, your website’s “skin” (the look and feel) gets old every now and then and needs to be shed so that a new skin can take its place. For lizards, this “reskin” just happens as they grow. But for a website, the process isn’t quite as automatic. So, what does a website reskin entail? And how do you know when it’s time to reskin your website?
We’ve worked with Professor Susan Goldstein for many years on various projects, most recently the South African Values and Ethics for Universal Health Coverage (SAVE-UHC) website. Following the recent launch of the SAVE-UHC website, we had a chat with Sue about the project.
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Recently we built a Shopify store for Nutape, a wholesaler and supplier of tapes, adhesives, abrasives, and more. Karel got stuck into building them an online store and shares the smooth project journey here with us.
Are you sick of the term “SEO”? Yes? Quite frankly, so am I. But if you’re in any way involved in websites, whether that be building, designing, maintaining, or making content for them, it’s a pretty important thing to know about.
Nobody cares about Plone (Plone Conference 2022 talk)
