Cover
Table of Contents
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
and
Summary
Index 
