[Plone-docs] basic questions

[Mark M. <ma...@mc...>]

What seems to be missing from the documentation I've found is a very
high-level:

  What is Content Management?
  What is CMF?
  What is Plone?

Perhaps because these are obvious?  Not to me, anyway.  I keep thinking the
incline of my learning curve with Plone would be a little less steep if I
had some basic intro to frame my understanding.  As it is, I'm decomposing
Plone, tinkering with it, customizing it here and there, using Find to
locate things.

Example:

I wonder, "How does the login box show up?"

I happen to stumble upon the Properties tab of the root portal object, where
I see stuff like this:

  here/login_slot/macros/loginBox

in the left and right slots lists.  So then I wonder, "Where is login_slot?"
I resort to using Find on the root portal object and see that it's in
portal_skins/plone_templates/ui_slots.

And I feel rewarded by this discovery.  But wouldn't it be nice if I had a
tutorial or something that started out answering/framing:

  What is Content Management?
  What is CMF?
  What is Plone?

And then drilled into the specifics of Plone (perhaps these are specifics of
CMF?):

  What makes up a page?
  What are portal_actions?
  What are ui_slots?
  Best practices...
  Sample doodad...

Cheers,

// mark