If you are reading this tutorial, you've probably been put in charge of moving the contents of your existing website into your new Plone website. You also likely have some content that exists in word-processing documents, and even some pictures on your desktop that need to go on the new site as well.

This tutorial will teach you the best ways to move all that content into Plone, without having to re-write everything.

Finding Content

If you are working on building a new Plone-powered website, you fall into one of two categories:

1. Your organization has an existing site that you wish to transfer into Plone, or
   
2. Your organization doesn't already have a site and you want to create a new one using Plone.

In the first instance, most of your content already exists on your old website, and you simply wish to transfer it to the new one. As part of that process, you probably be doing some editorial work along the way: deciding what content to keep and what to get rid of. You may also need to write content for brand new sections.

In the second instance, your primary job is to write and/or gather content together for the new website. Your desktop computer will act as the staging area for all the images, text, links, and so on that eventually will be part of your new Plone website.