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Plone 3.3 Site Administration

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Plone 3.3 Site Administration

Overview of this book

In the past few years, we have seen some dramatic changes in the way Plone sites are being developed, deployed, and maintained. As a result, developing and deploying sites, changing their default settings, and performing day to day maintenance tasks can be a challenge. This book covers site administration tasks, from setting up a development instance, to optimizing a deployed production site, and more. It demonstrates how-to perform these tasks in a comprehensive way, and walks the user through the necessary steps to achieve results.We have divided the subject of Plone site administration into three categories: development, deployment, and maintenance. We begin by explaining how a Plone site is built, and how to start using it through the web. Next, we add features by installing add-on products, focusing on themes, blogging, and other common enhancements. After the basics of developing and deploying a Plone site are covered, the book covers the basics of maintaining it.Further, throughout the book we preview some new technologies related to Plone site administration, available now as add-ons to the current Plone release. Finally, we will cover a variety of techniques to help you optimize your site's performance.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Plone 3.3 Site Administration
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Appearance

Soon after you install and run Plone for the first time, you will probably want to change the appearance. The effort needed to do so varies, and depends largely on your goals. If you are not picky, adding a new theme to Plone can be as simple as adding a package to your buildout.cfg file, running Buildout, and restarting Plone.

However, if you want a high quality, unique, and a professional-looking theme for your site, it could take several days, weeks, or even months to achieve the desired result.

In this chapter, we will cover the spectrum from easy and small changes with a high impact to more complex changes that require more effort. However, keep in mind that this is not a comprehensive coverage, help is just enough to rather a site administrator gain speed quickly. If you want to learn theming in depth, see the book "Plone 3 Theming", Veda Williams, Packt Publishing.

In this chapter, you will learn:

  • Installing themes with Buildout

  • Examining themes with Omelette and...