Plone Development
The Plone content management system provides a powerful basis for information solutions. With its commitment to accessibility and web-standards, and its powerful abstractions for content types, it provides a strong foundation for bespoke development of tailor-made systems. Netsight, as a Plone contributor, provides consultancy and development work for the Plone CMS.
Plone is built on top of the open source application server Zope, and the accompanying Content Management Framework, which has thousands of developers around the world supporting it. Plone is ideal as an intranet server, as a document publishing system and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities. Together, Zope and Plone provide all of the necessary tools to integrate data and content from nearly any source into powerful, coherent and maintainable Web applications.
Also well as using Plone as the foundation for a complete system, we also work as Plone consultants on projects for a wide variety of organisations.
Accessibility
Plone provides an exceptional foundation for producing highly accessible websites, combined with industry-leading internationalisation support.
Previously, it has seemed that attractive design and good accessibility have been mutually exclusive. But as new standards are introduced and technology improves, especially browser support for CSS, there is no reason why your website cannot have outstanding design, excellent usability, and yet still be accessible by every type of web user - be it through a screen or Braille reader, or simply by supporting variable font sizes. For example, this website achieves the highest level of accessibility rating, yet maintains (we like to think) a high level of design quality.
Intelligent site design from Netsight will ensure that when your site is viewed through a different type of device from a conventional web browser, it will remain fully usable.
Amendments to the Disability Discrimination Act (in the UK) and Section 508 (in the USA) are powerful examples of new government initiatives to improve accessibility on the web - with the direct implication that certain levels of accessibility will be mandatory in the future.