Now it is absolutely clear to me that the best way to become a computer whiz is writing tutorials...
When you have never used a piece of software before, or when clicking on “Help” is not answering your question(s), reading tutorials is a good way to answer some of your questions and help you get started. However, to get a complete understanding you'd better write tutorials yourself! Of course, at first it would be desirable if you asked someone to show you how it works and only after that start writing.  And be sure, as soon as you have finished your tutorial, the chances are that you will never forget about things you have learned.
Thus, now I can definitely state that I do know how to install Plone products using Quintagroup Plone hosting account after my having written a tutorial devoted to this topic although I have never done that before. The most important thing for me was that I was taking it as a game and was enthusiastic about putting all the screenshots needed for the Plone products installation tutorial together. After I finished with the order of screenshots, writing the text was rather easy and didn't take much time. 

The tutorial I was writing is now at the disposal of anyone who visits the site of Quintagroup. If there is something you would like to know about the whole Plone products installation procedure, you are welcome.

Yesterday was certainly a red-letter day for me, cause I managed to write my first tutorial.  I  used to think that such kind of tasks are somewhat boring and that it's impossible to get pleasure out of them.  I should admit to have been mistaken about that, 'cause it appeared to be fun in reality.     

The tutorial I was to write was ordered by one of Quintagroup's clients. He was using Plone Content Management System and wanted to cast light on the question of changing and setting different display views.  As it had to be my first tutorial, I decided to look through a couple of tutorials placed on the website of Quintagroup to have at least some general idea about it. After that I learned as much as possible about display views in Plone and started writing the tutorial under wise supervision of Ihor Berehulyak. 

The stage, on which I was doing screenshots, is especially memorable, cause having no Photoshop in Linux, I had to use its pretty cool analogue called the GIMP. It turned out to be a great graphical editor, if we forget about the moments when it totally refused to paste full screenshots. But I'm not ill-minded after all. Due to the Gimp I got all screenshots needed for my tutorial in one folder, and had them transported to NVU, an incredibly convenient visual html editor to use as it allows to switch between html source and preview mode. The text itself above the screenshots was not very difficult to write, although it's understandable that only after I write a few more tutorials I will be able to choose the right words quickly.

The tutorial I was writing is now placed on the website of Quintagroup. Probably, later it will be possible to have it on plone.org.

It seems to me the most difficult thing in writing this tutorial was to keep in mind that I shouldn't assume that “everyone already knows this”.

What I was happy to discover was the following truth:
You don't need to know everything to write a tutorial.  Just what is contained in it.

Having become more or less familiar with Plone, I've learned the basic things about Plone products as well. At first I grasped that if you want to view all Plone products which are at your disposal, all you need to do is to get into the Site Setup and then into Add/Remove Products. After that you are free to select the product you want by pressing the install button. Vice versa, if there is some product you don't need, you can simply remove it with the help of the uninstall button.
In case the product you terribly need isn't in the list of your products, you''ll definitely have to go directly to plone.org  or Content Management Software Info and select it for download from the list of all registered plone products.

There was one more thing about Plone products I had to learn in Quintagroup. You see, offering a wide range of Plone services, Plone products development being one of them, Quintagroup really needs to keep a centralized database of useful add-on products for Plone. If you take a fresh look at it from the distance, you'll see that it's not really a piece of cake. With this never-ending flood of new releases of Plone products it's always hard to keep up. Now I know how to do it. And although it does take pretty much time, it proves to be worth it in the end. The problem which can arise from time to time is that not each Plone product developer gives enough information about their products. Sometimes you just have to guess not only under what license the product was released, but also somehow find out in what Plone versions it can be used. It may even be funny after all! Being a kind of a Plone detective...

  I just feel obliged to share my experience of working with Plone. It’s not normal that so many people have never heard about this content management system. It shouldn’t be this way, and I’m going to give you the clinching proves supporting this point of view.

When I came into Quintagroup office in the search for a job, I had not even the slightest idea about Plone and the opportunities it gives. Having been acquainted with this system, I’ve come to realise that even a non-professional can easily grasp the basic things about Plone as it is really user-friendly. And as far as I know, with every passing year Plone developers are making this system much simpler. If this tendency grows in a similar vein, in a couple of years every child would be able to use Plone. Being easily understood by people from widely different backgrounds and with very different skills, Plone provides a stable and useful platform for managing content and building web applications.

    Not long ago the mere thought about making my own site seemed absolutely unthinkable to me. It terrified me to death ‘cause I was sure it would take so much time and money! And only now it finally dawned on me that due to Plone miracles can happen. Not just because Plone is licensed under a common open-source license GPL, that allows anyone to use the source for free. What is amazing about Plone is that it breaks all imaginable bounds and limitations! And it does save time!

The reasons why I am making such conclusions are the following:

• Plone can be viewed in all kinds of browsers, which means that you can manage your intranet and public web site from a web browser anywhere in the world

• No specialised tools are needed for the web site updating, just a web browser.

• The main goal of Plone content management system is focusing on the information, but not on the irrelevant elements.
• An opportunity to assign other participants local roles within projects while editing and publishing content considerably facilitates collaboration

• The administration and configuration of Plone is done through the web, and no access to the file system is needed after the system is set up. This makes for a very secure system

• Plone has a centralized sign-on mechanism, which prevents users from having to log on to each area separately

• Plone lets the web design adjust flexibly to users with impaired eyesight and/or motor skills challenges
• Plone lets the users feel ownership towards the intranet, and encourages content production.

• A large active community supports development of additional add-ons and products based on Plone

    However, the list of Plone advanages given above is far from being complete and those are not the only things which make Plone so user-friendly. You’ll find it out as soon as you start working with Plone. It would be no exaggeration to state that you’ll love Plone with all your heart and soul and mind and being.