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<p class="discreet">
If you're seeing this 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 mailing lists about this.
</p>

<h2>Get Started</h2>

<p>
Before you start exploring your newly created Plone site, please do the following:
</p>

<ol>
    <li>Make sure you are logged in as an admin/manager user 
        <span class="discreet">(you should see a Site Setup link in the top right corner)</span></li>
    <li><a href="prefs_mailhost_form">Set up your mail server</a> <span class="discreet">(Plone needs a valid SMTP server to verify users and send out password reminders)</span></li>
    <li><a href="reconfig_form">Specify an owner for the site</a> <span class="discreet">(From address on mail, contact address)</span></li>
</ol>

<p>After that, we suggest you do one or more of the following:</p>

<ul>
    <li>Find out <a href="http://plone.org/documentation/whatsnew/2.5">What's new in Plone 2.5</a></li>
    <li>Read the <a href="http://plone.org/documentation">documentation</a>, especially the 
        <a href="http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/read-documentation">What documentation should I read</a> 
        and 
        <a href="http://plone.org/documentation/faq/server-recommendations">Server setup recommendations</a>
    </li>
    <li>Explore the <a href="http://plone.org/products">available add-on products</a> for Plone</li>
    <li>Read and/or subscribe to the <a href="http://plone.org/support">support forums</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Tell us how you use Plone</h2>

<p>
Are you doing something interesting with Plone? Big site deployments, 
interesting use cases? Do you have a company that delivers Plone-based solutions?
</p>

<ul>
    <li>Add your sites to the <a href="http://plone.net/sites">Plone site listing</a></li>
    <li>Add your company as a <a href="http://plone.net/providers">Plone provider</a></li>
    <li>Add a <a href="http://plone.net/case-studies">case study</a> describing your deployed project and customer</li>
</ul>

<h2>Find out more about the underlying architecture</h2>

<p>
Plone is based on the Zope application server, and uses the Python programming
language. More about these technologies:
</p>

<p><a href="http://plone.org">The Plone Open Source Content Management System website</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.zope.org">Zope community</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.python.org">Python website</a></p>

<p>Thanks for using our product!</p>

<p>
&mdash; <a class="link-plain" href="http://plone.org/about/team">The Plone Team</a>
</p>