Beaver Island District Library
Welcome!
If you're seeing this text instead of the web site you were expecting, the owner of this web site has just installed Plone. Do not contact the Plone Team or the Plone support channels about this.
Get started
Before you start exploring your newly created Plone site, please do the following:
- Make sure you are logged in as an admin/manager user. You should have a Site Setup entry in the user menu.
- Set up your mail server. Plone needs a valid SMTP server to verify users and send out password reminders.
- Decide what security level you want on your site. Allow self registration, password policies, and more.
Get comfortable
After that, we suggest you do one or more of the following:
- Get the latest news about Plone.
- Read the documentation.
- Follow a training.
- Explore the available add-ons for Plone.
- Read or subscribe to the support channels.
Make it your own
Plone has many settings to make it do what you want. Some examples include:
- Try out a different theme, either pick from the included ones, or one of the available themes from plone.org. Make sure the theme is compatible with the version of Plone you are currently using.
- Decide what kind of workflow you want in your site. The default is typical for a public web site; if you want to use Plone as a closed intranet or extranet, you can choose a different workflow.
- By default, Plone uses a visual editor for content. If you prefer text-based syntax and/or wiki syntax, you can change this in the markup control panel
- …and many more settings are available in the Site Setup.
Tell us how you use it
Are you doing something interesting with Plone? Big site deployments, interesting use cases? Do you have a company that delivers Plone-based solutions?
- Add your company as a Plone provider.
- Add a success story describing your deployed project and customer.
Find out more about Plone
Plone is a powerful content management system built on a rock-solid application stack. Read about its technology on the Plone web site.
Support the Plone Foundation
Plone is made possible only through the efforts of thousands of dedicated individuals and hundreds of companies. The Plone Foundation:
- …protects and promotes Plone.
- …is a recognized 501(c)(3) charitable organization with the United States Internal Revenue Service.
- …receives donations that may be tax-deductible.
- Support the Foundation and help make Plone better!
Thanks for using our product. We hope you like it!
—The Plone Team
Join the Summer reading program
Meet Keith Grassmick, artist of the Mural.
Challenge the community to read 100,000 minutes before Sept. 8. Pick up reading logs at BIDL.
Every Thursday at 9:30 am. Fun, reading and activities for Babies and Toddlers.
Lego Club for all ages, 1 p.m.
Teens, join the summer quest online.
Reading hour between kids and senior citizens.
World Watercolor month will be celebrated with a Plein Air with Lois Stipp on July 11.
Rube Goldberg machine creation
Kids and Adults gather to read together.
Kids and adults read together
Libraries Love Lakes and BIDL join for this program of Flower Power
Cooperative game for teens
Chris Thelen, author of Islands of Deception, at the library for a book signing.
BIDL Board Meeting
International Day of Friendship
Teens gather at the library to create an art project and meet a guest artist.
