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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...

After working with websites professionally, I felt confident that I could do the job. A few days later I started at Six Feet Up, which threw me into the deep end of Plone. I was replacing Six Feet Up's Template Developer, and I was able to work with him for only two days before he left...

One of the most recent solutions offered by Six Feet Up is hosting for KARL. KARL is a Knowledge Management system created by OSF with Six Feet Up as the exclusive provider of hosting...

As the Six Feet Up KARL Champion, I plan to create blog entries to help new and potential KARL customers understand its dynamic functionality. Six Feet Up is the exclusive provider for KARL hosting. When new users begin with KARL, many ask questions about Groups and Permissions. Here's a high-level overview of permissions: what they do and how to assign them...