Plone 3 Theming

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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
			
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	Summary
Index