Once I had Plone up and running on my desktop, I did some research to find out what I needed to do to get it installed and running on my shared host account.  Well, it didn't take very long to find the answer in the Dreamhost Wiki:

This is the first in a series of articles about my "Adventures with Plone.  The are written from a newbie perspective since that's what I am when it comes to Plone.  Althoiugh I have a bit of experience with PHP-based CMS's, this is my first venture into the world of Plone, Zope and Python.

I'd heard about the Plone CMS before, but never paid much attention to it until I saw this post at
OpenSourceCommunity.org.  After reading the post, I decided take a look at Plone and and learn a bit more about it.   So I downloaded Plone 3.0 and installed it on my desktop PC....