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Six Feet Up team members Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Clayton Parker and David Blewett traveled to Ohio State University in Columbus for the 3rd PyOhio conference last weekend. This year's event continued the momentum from earlier conferences. Python users from the Midwest gathered to learn new strategies, maximize Python capabilities and wrap up with two days of development sprints. The location of the event was a great choice, making use of OSU's excellent Ohio Union...

About to start a new project with Plone 4, we wanted to check on the "Faculty/Staff Directory" compatibility. Here is a quick note with our findings...

As I was coming to the office the other day, and I heard that one of Six Feet Up's clients, American Red Ball, was sponsoring an exhibit for another one of our clients, The Indiana Historical Society...

The next version of Plone is now in the Release Candidate stage and will be officially available in the coming months. I have been working with Plone 4 through the beta stages, but it wasn't until recently that I got to work with the new version as if I were implementing a design for a client...

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a hot topic these days and you want to ensure that your site is discoverable by the crawlers that index the World Wide Web. One of the most frequent questions we get from new clients is "How will the public find our site?" You are going to want your on-site SEO be as easy and automated as possible...

One of the common concerns with Plone has been whether its complexity causes it to perform more slowly than other Content Management Systems. This complexity gives Plone more security, better enterprise controls and ease-of-use for end users, but in the past has lead some to call Plone "heavy"...

Six Feet Up System Administrators Lars Noldan and Kurt Maier will participate in the Hope Ride to benefit the Hope Food Bank. The 25-mile bike ride will be September 18, beginning at Hauser High School in Hope, IN...

This month, Six Feet Up's blog will feature "How I Met Plone" entries. It is our hope that these short narratives will introduce new CMS users to Plone and remind seasoned Plone users what makes Plone unique....

Every website will have different scaling needs. The site may have the need to sustain hundreds or thousands of concurrent users, or it may need to be able to store and index massive amounts of content. It may even have both concerns at the same time...