.. _overview: Overview ======== What is PyAMS? -------------- **PyAMS** stands for **Py**\ramid **\A**\pplication **\M**\anagement **\S**\kin is a whole "Suite" of applications and content management tools with user friendly skin. **PyAMS** is designed to support the management of the content of Web pages. Through an administration interface (call **ZMI**) the differents actors of creating a web page can work together to create a web page (see default theme gallery) .. _introduction: Why should I use PyAMS? ----------------------- Based on the python langage, **PyAMS** supply powerfull tools like *PyAMS_content*, this package providing content management features, which can be easily extended to manage your own content types. But PyAMS can also be used to manage any kind of application. In addition **PyAMS** is built on top of **MyAMS** (**My** **\A**\pplication **\M**\anagement **\S**\kin), a small web client framework built on top of JQuery and Bootstrap, which was developed by the french national forestry office (ONF -- Office national des forêts -- http://www.onf.fr) to build web applications in several languages (actually java, Python and PHP). The new ONF website is now completely handled with PyAMS framework. PyAMS is a multipurpose set of packages, providing tools including: * custom interfaces * custom registry annotations * custom security policy * local registry support * network protocols utilities (for HTTP and XML-RPC) * command line scripts * custom utilities. .. tip:: Some screenshots of the admin interface are available at :ref:`screenshots`! How to install PyAMS? --------------------- If you want to create a PyAMS application instance easily, just follow the :ref:`quickstart` guide! If you want learn more about a custom installation follow :ref:`install` procedure. What can I do with PyAMS? ------------------------------ Default theme gallery ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The default theme use bootstrap 3 library to build the :term:`front` user website Alternate skins gallery ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ * Example ONF website What PyAMS look like? --------------------- To create a website with PyAMS, you will use to the friendly content manager interface. .. include:: screenshots.rst