The last key piece to successfully skinning a site is to choose a text editor or CSS editor that matches your needs and plays well with Plone. We are not talking about a word processor here, like Microsoft Word or Pages; rather, a text editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files. Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code.
We'll look at a few of the more popular text editors that are appropriate for Plone development and theming.
TextMate is a combination of text editor and programming tool that is exclusively for the Mac, and can be found at http://macromates.com.
One of the key joys of working with TextMate is that it lets you open up an entire file structure at once to make navigation between related files easier. For Plone, this is essential. Your average file structure will look something like this:
Rather than opening...