Free Arch theme

Project Description

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Free Arch is a professional looking theme for Plone 3.1.x series.

Features

• Fixed width 1024 px wide layout optimized for laptop screens and article kind text reading
• GPL license
  
• Header images can change based on the top level folder (acquisition)
• The footer which can be edited with Visual Editor (Kupu)
  
• A custom front page with three boxes
  
• Show site published news items
• Show blog entry titles using an external blog and RSS reader
• Show latest customer references (custom content type which can be created with Plone Generic Content product
• Bilingual (built-in English, Finnish) support

Example sites

• Arch Red (based on Free Arch theme)

Quality and compability

This product was tested with Plone 3.1.x branch. Support for other versions is not guaranteed.

 

Installation

Use buildout based installation. The egg is available at Pypi repository.

• Add "freearch.theme" to your eggs section in buildout.cfg and zcml list

eggs = 
    freearch.theme

...

zcml =
    freearch.theme

• Run buildout
• Restart Plone
  
• Use Plone quick installer to install Free Arch theme product
  

 

Customization

Adding header image

• Go to any folder
• Add new image. Use title (item id) headerimage.
• On edit page, properties, set exclude for the navigation for the image. The image is displayed as the big banner when the user surts in the folder or the nested folders.

Editing footer

• Go to portal front page
• Click contents tab
• Add new page. Use title (item id) your-two-letter-language-code-footer. E.g. for english add a new page en-footer.
  

• On edit page, properties, set exclude for the navigation for the page.

Enabling custom front page

• The custom front page has three slots: news feed, blog feed and customer reference feed
  
• On the front page, choose front page view from display drop down menu
  

Adding customer references

• Content type "customer reference" is used for creating news like content which slightly altered behavior (different front page pop-up box)
  
• Create content type with portal type"CustomerReference" using Plone Generic Content. All published customer references are shown on the front page.
• The best way to to create Customer Reference content type is to inherit it from News. This way you'll have an image place holder for the customer logo.

Tuning blog feeds

• Blog feed urls are hardcoded to freearch.theme/freearch/theme/browser/frontpage.py file
  

 

Authors

• Taito Horiuchi, Abita Universal Communications Ltd

• Mikko Ohtamaa, Red Innovation Ltd
• Tuukka Mustonen, Red Innovation Ltd

 

This work was sponsored by Arch Red Oy

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