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.
- Eric Steele - Baarn Plone 4 UI sprint summary
- Eric Steele gives the Plone Users Group a summary of the Baarn Plone 4 UI sprint.
- Eric Steele - Plone 4 UI
- Eric Steele gives us a preview of the proposed changes to Plone's user interface in version 4.
- GloWorm
- GloWorm screencasts, developed by Penn State's WebLion Group, GloWorm is a theming inspection tool for the Plone content management system.
- Hiding Details with JavaScript
- Paul Rentschler shows how to selectively show and hide page elements using JavaScript, April 24th, 2009. Note also that there are some other tips and tricks that one can do using KSS or jQuery (see Eric Steele's presentation to the Plone Symposium East 2009)
- Introduction to viewlets in Plone 3: part 1 of 2
- An 8 minute video (on You Tube). Part 1 of a 2 part screencast showing how to customize Plone viewlets through the web and via a filesystem product
- Introduction to viewlets in Plone 3: part 2 of 2
- Second (9 minute) part of a 2 part screencast (on You Tube) showing how to customize viewlets. Demonstrates how to add a custom viewlet that uses its very own python class, and how to make a working uninstall profile (be a good citizen and include one in your product).
- Michael Miller - Rounded Corners with CSS
- Presentation on how to put rounded corners on tabs and portlets using css.
- Michael Mulich - Demonstration of themetweaker
- Michael Mulich will demonstrate his new themetweaker.themeswitcher product, which allows you to style different folders differently -- another very common theming request. more info here: https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/wiki/SubsiteTheming
- Microformats
- Rob Porter discusses the uses and implementation of microformats, April 24th, 2009.
- Rob Porter - tal:repeat demo
- Rob Porter demonstrated the usefulness of tal:repeat, a handy thing to be able to include in your page templates
