littled.net

Getting to a point where I can even start building my theme has been an uphill struggle, but I think I’m almost there. Unfortunately, getting to this point has neatly coincided with the end of my few days off work so I’m going to have to put it to one side for a bit.
There’s been [...]

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I started looking at the HTML generated by the Plone Default theme and guess what — the portal columns are in tables, like the old default theme for Plone 2.5x. The thing is, with Plone 2.5x you could use “Plone Tableless” as the basis for any theme customisations. Not so with Plone 3 — there [...]

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This the third part of my Plone 3 adventure. So far I’ve:

Set up my Plone 3 development environment using ZopeSkel, paster and zc.buildout
Created a test theme product — littled.theme

There’s still more work to be done before I can even start playing around with the CSS. I’ve sat down with pen and paper (yes, really) and [...]

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Right, now the instance has been set up I can set up a test theme package. I cd to the src directory created during my buildout, i.e. littled/src.
This is where I’m going to create my theme product:
$ paster create -t plone3_theme littled.theme
I use these details:

Namespace package: littled
Package: theme
Skinname: Littled theme
Skinbase: ‘Plone Default’ (default option)
Enter [...]

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I’m going to spend some time over the next few days really getting my head around Plone 3 so I start work in earnest on my selected theme for the OOTB Themes project.
I’ve decided to document pretty much everything I do so I can learn from it and have something to refer back to. Hopefully [...]

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