is plone a good choice for large b2c websites?

Is Plone a good choice for large B2C

websites?Lukas Guziel | Interaktiv GmbH

Agenda• Introduction• Customer Requirements• Implementation• Summary

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Introduction

Customer Requirements

Implementation

Summary

Introduction

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Interaktiv GmbH• Online Agency in Cologne• Open-Source CMS-System

• Plone• Magento

• Online Marketing• Webdesign

a leading worldwide automotive and motor bike Manufacturer.Suzuki

Introduction

Customer Requirements

Implementation

Summary

• Software Developer• Project Manager

Lukas Guziel

Introduction

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Is Plone a good choice for large B2C websites?

• Who uses Plone?• The big players?

• Quick gains for companies using Plone.• Common customizations• Add-on products• Security

• Summary: Was Plone at the end a good choice?

Introduction

Customer Requirements

Implementation

Summary

Customer Requirements

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General RequirementsIntroduction

Customer Requirements

Implementation

Summary

Implement by Specifications

Implement by strict Layout

Multi-Site Management

Frontend-Editing

Personalized Content

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Customer Requirements

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Technical RequirementsIntroduction

Customer Requirements

Implementation

Summary

• Tiles-System• Working Copy

• Contentproxy• RSS-Content in Plone• Imagecropping• SEO-Optimizations• PDF-Generation• Inline-Editing• Connection to API‘s via WSDL• Testing• Documentation• …

Implementation

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Tiles-SystemIntroduction

Customer Requirements

Implementation

Summary

Why not plone.app.mosaic?• Special workflows• Customized Creation-Process of Tiles

Tiles Contenttype• Rows and Tiles• Customized Workflow• JSON-API for Frontend-Editing• Modals

Implementation

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Introduction

Customer Requirements

Implementation

Summary

PDF-Generation | Inline-Editing

PDF-Generation• Weasyprint• LaTeX

Inline-Editing• TinyMCE 4

Implementation

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RSS-Content in Plone | API‘sIntroduction

Customer Requirements

Implementation

Summary

RSS-Feed as Plone Content Type• Search Indexing

Connect to API‘s by WSDL• suds

Implementation

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Image Cropping | SEO-Optimizer | Contact FormsIntroduction

Customer Requirements

Implementation

Summary

Image-Cropping• ImageContainer Content Type• „Cropper“

SEO-Optimizer• Diazo Rules.xml

PloneFormGen• Archetypes based CT‘s

Implementation

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Testing | DocumentationIntroduction

Customer Requirements

Implementation

Summary

Testing with plone.app.testing• White-Box• Black-Box• Acceptance Tests

• Robot-Tests

Documentation• Automated with sphinx

Summary

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Pro´s for Plone

• Good looking user interface with easy integration into Diazo Themes

• Interactive Editing through Javascript Backend

• Secure object-oriented Database• Security on Applicaltion-Level with

e.g. Workflows• Infinitely Extenable with a ZEO

Cluster• Plone.app.testing• Plone.app.caching• …

Introduction

Customer Requirements

Implementation

Summary

Con´s for Plone

• Little amount of helpful extenstions migrated for Plone 5• Seooptimizer• Cropping tool• PloneFormGen

Summary

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Is Plone a good choice for large B2C websites?

Introduction

Customer Requirements

Implementation

Summary

Thank youfor your attention!

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