Presentations and screencasts
Talks about WebLion, our products, our tools, and Plone.
Plone Users Group recordings
Tutorial screencasts and videos of some of the presentations from our Friday afternoon Plone Users Group meetings.
Migrating your site to Plone: case studies highlighting different approaches
Have you been considering Plone/WebLion? Are you daunted by the idea of moving your entire website into a(nother) content management system? In this panel presentation, 4 Penn State developers share their approach to migrating their units' sites to Plone. Experiences range from big-bang makeovers of static sites to incremental migration from existing content management systems. A talk given at the 2008 Penn State Web Conference.
Buildout
Screencasts on using zc.buildout to install Zope and Plone, and to make products available to Plone.
SchemaExtender extender extends your mind
Erik Rose shows how Archetypes’ schemaextender module is the shiny new way to add fields to existing content types (e.g. adding a URL field to News Items) without subclassing. From the 2008 Plone Symposium East.
Firefox for web developers
Eric Steele's overview of some of the in-built functionality and plug-ins that make Firefox such a useful tool for designing and testing web sites and web applications. From the 2007 Penn State Web Conference.
Managing personnel with FacultyStaffDirectory
Eric Steele and Erik Rose give an overview of this WebLion product that allows you to keep track of people who should be listed on your website. Add details just once (even import them from an existing listing) and display them wherever you like, however many times you like. From the 2008 Plone Symposium East.
System administration
Tutorials and presentations on how to set up a server to run Plone, including talks on caching and redirection.
UI and theming
Presentations on the Plone user interface and how to customize what people can see and do when they come to a Plone site.
Project management
How to manage moving your site into Plone, and keeping it there. Includes talks on how to use Trac to help you keep track of things.
Michael Mulich - Plone API
Michael Mulich outlined the progress on developing an API that allows a Plone site to share data easily with other sites and applications: https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/wiki/WebServicesApiPlone
