This course focuses on moving you from someone with little or no Plone skills to:

• Understanding Plone's advanced features
• Customizing the look and feel of a Plone site
• Writing new templates and scripts
• Developing new content types in Archetypes
• Using best practices in development (debugging, testing, etc.)

Please be sure to look at the prerequisites for this course.

Day One

• Installing Plone
• Using advanced Plone features (Smart Folders, syndication, etc.)
• Customizing Plone's features
• Installing add-on products for Plone

Day Two

• Building new templates using Zope Page Templates
• Understanding acquisition and "in-place customization"
• Customizing the look and feel of your site with CSS and HTML

Day Three

• Writing Python scripts in Plone
• Building forms and applications in Plone
• Managing users and workflow

Day Four

• Creating new content types with Archetypes
• Using ArchGenXML to design content types visually
• Customizing your content type appearance and functionality
• Writing new Plone products
• Debugging product installation/authorship issues

Day Five

• Using Plone with relational databases
• Debugging Plone (ZODB shell and WingIDE)
• Looking to the future: Zope 3 technologies and Five
• Customizing Plone's workflow and security
• Best practices for development and deployment