Theming News & Articles

Last year we noted that the mid-size open source CMS Plone (news, site) looked like it was gearing up for a bigger and better 2009. Many things since then have solidified that observation, including the launch of a user feedback system, a relicensing policy, and much talk about the upcoming Plone 4 and 5.

Before we get too ahead of ourselves though, let's slow down and take a look at Plone 3. Author Veda Williams has just announced the release of her new book Plone 3 Theming through Packt Publishing.

Williams' book reportedly teaches best practices of Plone theme development, focusing on Plone 3. The book covers topics such as configuring the development environment, creating a basic theme product, add-on tools and skinning tricks, integrating multimedia with Plone, and configuring a site's look and feel through the Zope Management Interface (ZMI). Finally, for you future fiends, there is a sneak peek into the future of Plone's theming system.

Williams has worked in software development for a whopping 18 years. Her experience includes a three-year stint as a Plone skinner, and she is currently the editor for the documentation section of plone.org. In other words? This lady knows what she's talking about.

If you're a professional Web designer working with Plone and would fancy some theming help, you can pick up your electronic version here.

We’ve been waiting for Drupal 6 for some time. But not as long as we reckoned, because its release last week came a little sooner than expected. Don’t get me wrong: I am excited. But I was supposed to be playing golf this morning against this rube accountant acquaintance of mine, who I know from long experience would bet on two flies walking up the wall.

Instead, I had to scratch that to look under the hood of this major new release of the Mothership of community-building Open Source Web CMS. Let this be a lesson to you all. Life is just not fair.

Buytaert et al; this better be good…