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Create flexible, powerful, and professional themes for your web site with Plone and basic CSS
- Best practices for creating a flexible and powerful Plone themes
- Build new templates and refactor existing ones by using Plone's templating system, Zope Page Templates (ZPT) system, Template Attribute Language (TAL) tricks and tips for skinning your Plone site
- Create a fully functional theme to ensure proper understanding of all the concepts
- A step-by- step approach to ensure proper understanding of all the concepts
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Sample Chapter no. 12 "Add-on Tools and Theming Tips" [1 MB]
Table of Contents
Language English
Paperback 324 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date
July 2009
ISBN 1847193870
ISBN 13 978-1-847193-87-2
Author(s)
Veda Williams
Topics and Technologies
Content Management, Open Source
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A clear, step-by-step guide to create customized Plone web sites
Themes are among the most powerful features that can be used to customize a web site, especially in Plone. Using custom themes can help you brand your site for a particular corporate image; it ensures standards compliance and creates easily navigable layouts. But most Plone users still continue to use default themes as developing and deploying themes that are flexible and easily maintainable is not always straightforward.
This book teaches best practices of Plone theme development, focusing on Plone 3. It provides you with all the information useful for creating a robust and flexible Plone theme. It also provides a sneak peek into the future of Plone's theming system.
In this book you will learn how to create flexible, powerful, and professional Plone themes. It is a step-by-step tutorial on how to work with Plone themes. It also provides a more holistic look at how a real-world theme is constructed. We look at the tools required for theming a web site. The book covers major topics such as configuring the development environment, creating a basic theme product, add-on tools and skinning tricks, integrating multimedia with Plone, and configuring your site's look and feel through the Zope Management Interface (ZMI). Finally, the book takes a close look at the thrilling and greatly simplified future of theming Plone sites.Read the full Table of Contents for Plone 3 Theming
- Create attractive themes using Plone 3 programming concepts
- Customize your Plone theme and get a new look and feel for your web site
- Set up a productive development environment for building a quality theme product
- Use graphic design, Subversion, and other helpful tools that make theming easier and more efficient
- Use Zope 3 components for building powerful Plone themes
- Create an actual theme product using the Plone 3 theming concepts
- Embed multimedia in a Plone template to make your theme more attractive and useful
- Deploy and test your theme by following best practices
Chapter 1: Skinning for Plone: Overview – In this chapter, we take a look at how theming has become even more complex with the newest release of Plone. We will also compare Drupal with Plone.
Chapter 2: Skinner's toolkit – In this chapter, we take a look at the tools that are needed for theming. We also take a look at the browser add-ons that are available for debugging our web site's CSS, JavaScript, color palate, and more.
Chapter 3: Getting started – In this chapter we will configure the development environment and learn how Python and ZCML fit into the scenario. We will also learn the jargon associated with Plone 3.0 development.
Chapter 4: Making manual (TTW) changes and how to extract them into a file system – In this chapter, we will learn how to expose a theme product to a file system and install it. We take a look at the elements that comprise the component architecture for a theme product. We will also learn how the skin layers work.
Chapter 5: Working with Zope 3 components – This chapter focuses on the Zope 3 components that are involved in file system theme development. We take a look at the interfaces and adapters. We will learn how to use ZCML code to tie together the Zope 3 components. We will also learn how to use images, style sheets, and browser resources and how to write browser views.
Chapter 6: Customizing Viewlets and Portlets – This chapter focuses on Viewlets, viewlets manager and @@ manage-viewlets. We take a look at Portlets and will learn portlet customization techniques.
Chapter 7: Understanding Zope Page Templates and the Template Attribute Language – In this chapter, we will learn what a Zope Page Templates system is. We also take a look at Template Attribute Language (TAL) and will learn common TAL expressions.
Chapter 8: Building a new theme: A real-world example – In this chapter we will use the concepts that we have learned to build an actual theme product.
Chapter 9: Add-on tools and skinning tricks – In this chapter we take a look at the popular add-ons, the current state of sub-site theming and possible options, and the non-plone products that can be used to alter the site's look and feel.
Chapter 10: Plone and multimedia – In this chapter we will learn how to embed multimedia into the content of a page and into a page template. We also take a look at Plone-specified add-ons that provide multimedia support.
Chapter 11: Deploying and contributing themes – In this chapter we take a look at the suggested development environments, theme deployment workflow, the quality assurance process, where to look for potential problems, and how to contribute to the plone theming community by creating publically available themes.
This book provides a holistic look at theming Plone sites as well as step-by-step instructions on how to create Plone themes. The book first briefly introduces the concepts and necessary tools and then moves on to describing the concepts needed for customizing templates in Plone. It also provides handy tips and tricks along the way to simplify the theming process.
This book is targeted at professional web designers working with Plone who want to create their own unique look and feel for a Plone web site.
Veda Williams
Veda Williams has worked in software development for 18 years, which includes her three-year stint as a Plone skinner. She currently works for ONE/Northwest in Seattle, Washington. Veda is an editor for the documentation section of plone.org, and in addition to this book, she is writing a book on theming for Plone, due for publication in Spring 2009.
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