Plone 3 Theming Table Of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Theming Plone 3: An Overview
Chapter 2: Skinner's Toolkit
Chapter 3: Setting up your Development Environment
Chapter 4: Create and Install a Theme Product
Chapter 5: Making Manual (TTW) Changes or What Not to Do
Chapter 6: Working with Zope 3 Components
Chapter 7: Customizing Viewlets and Portlets
Chapter 8: Understanding Zope Page Templates and the Template Attribute Language
Chapter 9: Creating, Installing, and Tweaking our Theme
Chapter 10: General Styling and Templating Changes
Chapter 11: Custom Page Views and Sectional Styling
Chapter 12: Add-on Tools and Theming Tips
Chapter 13: Plone and Multimedia
Chapter 14: Deploying and Contributing Themes
Chapter 15: The Future of Theming for Plone
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Theming Plone 3: An Overview
  • Background
  • What is Plone, really?
    • Technical overview
    • Books about Plone
  • Theming and other CMS frameworks
  • The evolution of skinning for Plone
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Skinner's Toolkit
  • Graphic design tools
    • Adobe Photoshop
    • Adobe Fireworks
    • GIMP
  • Browser add-ons and important notes
    • Internet Explorer
    • Firefox
      • Firefox Web Developer extension
      • Firebug extension
      • YSlow
      • Colorzilla
    • Safari tools
      • Safari Web Inspector
  • Validation tools
  • Text editors
    • TextMate
    • CSS Edit
    • E Text Editor
    • Notepad
    • WordPad
    • Dreamweaver
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Setting up your Development Environment
  • Buildout and you
  • Understanding the terminology
  • Setting up your development environment
    • Subversion for version control
    • Download Plone
      • Macintosh dependencies for the Unified Installer
      • Windows dependencies for the Unified Installer
      • Operating system agnostic dependencies
    • Buildout: The Plone filestructure
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Create and Install a Theme Product
  • Generating your theme product using paster
    • Available templates
    • Generating your product
    • Filestructure of a plone3_theme product
  • Adding your theme product to your buildout
  • Starting Zope and installing your product on a Plone site
    • Creating a Plone site
    • Installing your Plone theme
    • Putting your site into debug mode
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Making Manual (TTW) Changes or What Not to Do
  • Prerequisites
  • What this chapter will not cover
  • Registering and installing a new theme
    • Register the filesystem directory view
    • Make the directory view available to portal_skins
    • Install your theme product
    • General guidelines during development
  • About a theme product's architecture
  • Changing your site via CMF action categories
    • Document actions category
    • Site actions category
    • Folder buttons category
    • Object category
    • Object buttons category
    • Portal tabs category
    • User category
  • About GenericSetup
    • Base profile
    • Extension profiles
    • An example extension profile
    • Taking snapshots
    • Export profile
    • Import profile
  • Moving portal_actions configurations into a filesystem product
  • Skin layer customization, the old-fashioned way
    • Using the portal_skins tool
    • Changing base_properties
  • Modifying images using the custom folder
  • Extracting items from the custom folder
  • Using stylesheets and the CSS resource registry tool
    • Common conventions for using stylesheets in Plone
      • Overriding base Plone stylesheets
      • DTML support
      • Location of files and controlling bloat
    • Adding new stylesheets
      • Starting with CSS in the ZMI
      • Creating a theme-specific stylesheet in your filesystem product
  • Working with JavaScripts in your theme product
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Working with Zope 3 Components
  • About the architecture
    • Introduction to ZCML
    • Zope 3 browser layers and resources
    • Using images as browser resources
    • Using stylesheets as browser resources
    • Browser pages
      • Create a Python class for our browser page
    • Add the interface for our browser page
      • Registering our browser page
      • Create a page template for our view
      • Write the GenericSetup steps to create the new CMF action category
      • Register the viewlet in your theme product
      • Enable the browser page
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Customizing Viewlets and Portlets
  • Viewlets
    • Class-based versus template-based viewlets
    • Registering viewlets in a viewlet manager
    • Reordering viewlets within a viewlet manager
      • Showing, hiding, and unhiding viewlets within a viewlet manager
      • Overriding a viewlet template
      • Overriding a non-template-based viewlet
  • Portlets
    • Modifying Plone 3 portlets in a theme product
    • Creating a new Zope 3 portlet
      • Add the interface for our browser page
      • Create a page template for our view
      • Write the GenericSetup steps to create the new portlet
      • Write the GenericSetup to create a new CMFAction category and actions
      • Register the portlet in your theme product
      • Enable the portlet
    • Using Classic portlets in a theme product
  • Using portal_view_customizations
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Understanding Zope Page Templates and the Template Attribute Language
  • About ZPT
    • What does TAL look like in practice?
  • About the Template Attribute Language
    • tal:attributes statement
      • Multiple attributes
    • tal:define statement
      • How this works in Plone
    • tal:condition statement
      • How this works in Plone
    • tal:content statement
      • How this works in Plone
    • tal:repeat statement
      • How this works in Plone
    • tal:replace Statement
      • How this works in Plone
    • tal:omit-tag statement
      • How this works in Plone
    • tal:on-error statement
      • How this works in Plone
    • TAL "structure" expression syntax
      • How this works in Plone
  • Order of operations
  • Built-in names in TALES
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Creating, Installing, and Tweaking our Theme
  • About the theme
  • Creating a theme product
  • Altering the theme product's structure
    • Renaming the theme
    • Shortening folder names
    • Adjusting how stylesheets and images are used
  • Installing the theme product
  • Adjusting web site content to support the design
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: General Styling and Templating Changes
  • Modifying the various sections of the page
    • Basic styling
    • Changing the logo
    • Adding a banner image
    • Customizing the portal actions
    • Adjusting the searchbox display
    • Moving the searchbox
    • Adjusting the personal bar
    • Suppressing the top navigation
    • Moving and styling the breadcrumbs
    • Base portlet styling
    • Adjusting the footer and the colophon
    • Altering the navigation
  • Summary

• Chapter 11: Custom Page Views and Sectional Styling
  • Changing the default home page display
    • Using CSS styles and the visual editor
    • Using a basic page template for a home page view
    • Using Python code to render a home page view
  • Sectional styling
  • Applying Internet Explorer fixes
  • Summary

• Chapter 12: Add-on Tools and Theming Tips
  • Popular add-on Plone products
    • Enabling drop downs using webcouturier.dropdownmenu
    • Collage
    • Tableless styling using Plone Tableless
    • CSSManager
    • Products.EasyAsPiIE
    • collective.skinny
    • FS Dump
    • qPloneSkinDump
    • Collection and static portlets
  • Sectional theming
    • themetweaker.themeswitcher
  • Non-Plone-specific products for theming
    • sIFR
    • Rules-based theming
  • Debugging tools and tips
    • GloWorm
    • About tracebacks and Pdb (the Python debugger)
    • Running more than one operating system at a time
  • Summary

• Chapter 13: Plone and Multimedia
  • Flash integration
    • Embedding Flash and other media in a page
    • Embedding Flash in a page template
  • Plone add-ons for multimedia
    • collective.flowplayer
    • Slideshow Folder
    • Plone4Artists Video
  • Other products to watch out for
    • Plone4ArtistsAudio
    • Plumi
  • Summary

• Chapter 14: Deploying and Contributing Themes
  • Deploying your theme on a server
    • Maintaining an orderly deployment
    • Documentation
    • Configuration
    • Quality assurance
  • Deploying a theme for public use
  • Summary

• Chapter 15: The Future of Theming for Plone
  • Why a new approach?
  • About the future of theming in Plone
  • Is XDV ready for serious deployments?
    • Background and history
    • Choosing the appropriate theming approach
      • Which one should I use?
    • Tools and prerequisites
    • Adding XDV to your Plone instance
      • Platform notes
      • Adding collective.xdv
      • Running buildout
    • Activating XDV
      • Adding the HTML and rule files
      • Enabling the theme transform
      • Testing that everything works
    • How it works
    • The rule file
    • Rules Overview
      • <replace>
      • <append> and <prepend>
      • <copy>
      • <drop>
  • Summary

• Index

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