DIYPloneStyle: Creating a Custom Style for Plone
This Tutorial applies to:
Plone 2.5.x, Plone 2.1.x
This Tutorial is intended for:
Integrators, Customizers
davconvent
All content on one page (useful for printing, presentation mode etc.)
- Introduction Introducing DIYPloneStyle and the purpose of this tutorial.
- Installation and basic example Quick learning from the basic example included in DIYPloneStyle.
- Getting Started - The Manual Way Preparing DIYPloneStyle for making it the skeleton of a new visual theme for Plone.
- Getting Started - The Automated Way Using the built-in generator script for quick skeleton creation.
- Organizing the skins layers A bit of theory on the portal_skins tool mechanism.
- Working with Base Properties Editing base_properties.props for quick customization.
- Registering and customizing stylesheets Best use of the Resource Registries.
- Troubleshooting Some solutions in case you encounter problems.
- Resources Related documentation, Zope/Plone products and CSS oriented developer tools.
- Translations This tutorial in your language (?).
see also:
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Creating a new theme for Plone: a real-world example
- In this tutorial, Alexander Limi will show you how to take a default Plone site and put a totally different look on it. (Not updated for Plone 3.0 yet)
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Using the Resource Registries to control CSS and Javascript
- Plone has two neat tools for managing Cascading Stylesheets and Javascript in a handy way. This tutorial explains some whys and hows and even has a minimal practical example of how it works.
See George Lee's tutorial
The tutorial can be found here:
http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/switching-skins.
Focus on the chapter about switching skins by type of user:
http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/switching-skins/use-case-two-skin-by-type-of-user.
Enjoy!
george lee's tutorial
christof
Hi christof :)
cheers
Rephrase the description?
I find the current description rather cryptic. How about rephrasing it to something like this:
This tutorial will teach you how DIYPloneStyle can be used as a base for creating a custom style. The product DIYPloneStyle adds a new skin selection item to a portal. It uses the new stylesheet and javascript registries that were introduced in Plone 2.?.?.
switch skin for auth users to plone default