Agenda

• Designing your Plone theme visually
• Changing/hiding/moving buttons and tabs on the screen
• Theming with CSSManager
• Deciding what CSS you need!
• Building your theme
• Creating custom "viewlets"
• Creating custom "portlets"
• Using super time-saving tools like FireBug, WebDeveloperExtensions and the amazing, Plone-specific "Gloworm"
• Capturing your theme into a "theme product"
• to use on other sites, or
• with other clients, or
• to keep under version  control

About the Trainer

Joel Burton teaches and consults on Plone for a living, offering 20+ classes a year, including the "Plone Bootcamp", considered for years to be the critical course teaching the central skills needed to build an effective Plone site. He has served as a core volunteer in the Plone project since 2002, and currently serves on the board of directors of the nonprofit Plone Foundation. Joel lives in San Francisco, California.

Audience

This course is appropriate for:

• web designers
• site builders/integrators
• developers
  
  

Requirements

It does not require Plone experience (though if you have used Plone, you will get more out of it). It does require HTML knowledge and core CSS skills.

An excellent book to get you up to speed on the HTML and CSS skills you need is O'Reilly's Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML.

This is a hands-on class. You will want, if possible, to bring a laptop with Plone installed (students will receive simple step-by-step instructions on how to set up their Plone site for class).

To register yourself, you must be logged into this site. You can log in or create an account. If you would like to register someone other than yourself (or a group of people from your company), please see Registering Others.