Plone/Zope CMS (Content Management System) Web Site Development

Overview of Content Management and Workflow SystemsOverview of the Zope 2 and Zope 3 FrameworksOverview of Plone 2.5 and Plone 3.2 and how they relate to Zope 2 and Zope 3Principles of Design, Planning and Testing of a Plone CMSAn introductory look at Plone

• Basic Elements and Concepts of a Plone CMS
• • Documents
  • Users
  • Collections
  • Portlets
  • Workflows
  • Keywords
  • Folder sharing
  • Plone is built on Zope and CMF

Introduction to Zope

• ZMI (Zope Management Interface)
• acquisition machinery
• Interfaces and adapters
• Users and Permissions
• Introduction to CMF

Plone in the ZMI

• Tabs in the ZMI
• Tools in the ZMI
• • portal_catalog
  • portal_actions
  • portal_workflow
  • portal_setup
  • portal_types

Understanding Users and permissions in ZopeUnderstanding Users and permissions in PloneBasics of ZPT - Zope Page templates

• TAL
• The TAL namespace
• • tal:replace
  • tal:content
  • tal:repeat
  • tal:define
  • tal:condition
• TALES
• • Path expressions
  • Python expressions
  • String expressions
• METAL
• • Macros
  • Slots
  • Defining and using macros
  • Defining and using slots
  • Master page
  • Portlets - "blurbs"
  • Plone 3 portlets
• Providers in place of macros

Skins

• Purpose
• Precedence
• Selecting template to change
• Non layout aspects of portal_skins
• • Code
  • Properties
• Zope 3 Views

Loading and Retrieving Information in Plone

• WebDav and FTP
• .zexp and .xml (via the ZMI)
• External object storage
• Working with relational databases

Plone Development

• Document types using Archetypes
• Varieties of fields and widgets
• Automatic updating of fields
• References
• Collection objects
• Buildouts

Tool implementationWorkflows

• Customising workflows via the ZMI
• Using a Product to add a workflow

Plone 3's Notable

• Content rules
• Locating page templates and customisations
• New roles and workflows supported in Plone 3
• Adapters