Stanch

Stanch is a visual theme for the Plone CMS, based on the "Stanch" Nucleus CMS template.

Current release

No stable release available yet.

Project Description

Stanch is a visual theme for the Plone CMS, based on the "Stanch" Nucleus template by Ivan Fong.

This theme uses the MySkin product written by Martin Aspeli to create it's visual theme installation package.

Stanch was ported to the Plone CMS by Shane Graber

This theme is not yet Plone 2.1 compatible.

Requirements

Tested with:

  • Plone 2.0.5
  • Python 2.3.3
  • Zope 2.7.0

Installlation

Installation is straight-forward:

  • Unzip Stanch1.0.0.zip to your Products directory
  • Restart Zope
  • Log in as Manager to your Plone site and install from Plone Setup
  • While in Plone Setup, navigate to Skins and select the Stanch skin from the dropdown list

Notes

Visually tested in IE6 and Firefox 1.0.6. Other browsers/versions may not work 100%. A couple of tiny IE hacks had to be employed in ploneCustom.css in order to align certain sections properly.

Due to the visual theme, the following Plone components have been hidden using CSS:

  • Right slot (#portal-column-two)
  • Search box (#portal-searchbox)
  • Site actions (#portal-siteactions)
  • Footer (#portal-footer)
  • Portal Tabs (#portal-globalnav)

Due to the right column being hidden, you will more than likely be missing a couple portlets. Log into the ZMI and navigate to your Plone root and move all of your portlets in right_slots over to left_slots.

The search box has been moved into a portlet. To use this portlet, add the following to your left_slots in the root of your Plone site:

  • here/portlet_searchbox/macros/portlet

Any portal logo you use will need to have a background transparency so that the portal top background image bleeds through. The way that I got around this was to change the default logo name from logo.jpg to logo.gif in base_properties. The current logo was created in Georgia 20 pt font with a transparent background.

The theme also employs the FancyTooltips plugin for Wordpress This particular plugin is released under the MIT License This plugin "dynamically changes the tooltips that are created by browsers. Basically, FancyTooltips replaces those boring little boxes that appear next to your mouse with a dynamic and impressive one. FancyTooltips supports the title attribute from anchors, acronyms, inserts, and deletions and the alt attribute from images. It will also display the accesskey attribute from an anchor." By default, FancyTooltips are turned off for images. If you would like to use them for images, edit line 399 or 400 in fancytooltips.js accordingly.

The theme will break its width when viewing the Error log and Undo.

Bug fixes and feedback are greatly appreciated!