quintagroup.theme.schools 6.0

Free diazo theme from Quintagroup for Plone 4.1

Schools is a free diazo theme for Plone 4.1

Features

• Carousel Banner

  Schools Plone Theme can contain carousel banner(s) on the front page. Changeable set of rotating banners can be added to the Schools’s front page with help of Products.Carousel, that is installed automatically with the theme. Banner images rotate every several seconds, besides site visitor can browse any of them by covering the corresponding pager.

  To create a banner on the front page - go to the ‘Carousel’ tab in the task bar. Set carousel options and select ‘Carousel Banner’ from ‘Add new…’ drop-down menu. Upload image that will be used as one rotating banner, type its title and text (will be displayed under the image), and provide web address image title will be linked to. Add as many carousel banners as you need.

  Optimum image dimensions are 397*288px. There are 4 demo images that might be used as demo banners - see ‘src’ folder within theme package (quintagroup -> theme -> schools).

• Right top area is reserved for a portlet. The first portlet from right column is displayed there.

• Replaceable logo as in default Plone: customize portal_skins -> sunburst_images -> logo.png image.

• Editable footer as in default Plone: customize portal_view_customizations -> plone.footer

Dependencies

• plone.app.theming

• plone.app.themingplugins

• Products.Carousel

Recommended

SuinRain diazo theme was tested with:

• Plone 4.1

• plone.app.theming 1.0b9

• plone.app.themingplugins 1.0b1

• Products.Carousel 2.1

Besides, special styles were added to the theme for correct theme display with the following products activated:

• quintagroup.dropdownmenu 1.2.5

• Products.LinguaPlone 4.1

Home Directory

http://skins.quintagroup.com/schools

Authors

• Yuriy Hvozdovych

• Volodymyr Rudnytskyy

• Serhiy Valchuk

• Taras Peretiatko

Quintagroup: http://quintagroup.com, 2006-2011

Installation

To install diazo schools theme on Plone 4.1 - in the buildout.cfg file of your instance:

• Add quintagroup.theme.schools to the list of eggs to install, e.g.:

  [buildout]
  ...
  eggs =
      ...
      quintagroup.theme.schools

• Re-run buildout:

  $ ./bin/buildout

• Restart the Zope server:

  $ ./bin/instance restart

Then activate ‘Schools Theme’ in Plone (Site Setup -> Add-ons).

Installation: development mode

If you want to customize Schools theme please use the following installation instructions:

• download quintagroup.theme.schools-version.zip archive from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/quintagroup.theme.schools

• extract theme archive to get quintagroup.theme.schools-version folder. Remove version from folder name to have quintagroup.theme.schools folder

• put quintagroup.theme.schools folder into src directory of your buildout

• in buildout.cfg file of your buildout add quintagroup.theme.schools to the list of eggs you are developing and to the list of eggs to install:

  [buildout]
  ...
  develop = src/quintagroup.theme.schools
  ...
  eggs =
      ...
      quintagroup.theme.schools

• Re-run buildout:

  $ ./bin/buildout

• Start instance in development mode:

  $ ./bin/instance fg

• Install Schools Theme in Plone (Site Setup -> Add-ons).

Now you can customize Schools Theme by modifying quintagroup.theme.schools package in src directory of your buildout.

ChangeLog

6.0 - November 23, 2011

• theme package converted into diazo theme

4.2 - Apr 11, 2011

• work with quintagroup.dropdownmenu fixed

• Styles for sitemap, document editable and live search fixed

• columnOneWidthInt value added to base_properties

• Products.LinguaPlone compatibility fixed

4.1 - Jan 24, 2011

• theme updated to Plone 4

4.0 - Mar 01, 2010

• theme product is package now [serg]

• top portlet manager was added [serg]

• Products.Carousel product integration [serg]

• most of css images were merged into image sprite [serg]

• new properties were added to base_propeties [serg]

• favicon was added [serg]

3.3.2 - Dec 2, 2009

• Improved print.css [serg]

3.3.1 - Oct 16, 2009

• Default theme logo changes [serg]

3.3 - Sep 4, 2009

• Restored breadcrumbs [serg]

3.2 - June 15, 2009

• Ie fixes were separated

• Customized templates were updated to Plone 3.2

3.1 - June 25, 2008

• Language selector panel styled

• Plone 3.1.2 compatibility tested

3.0.4 - Mar 18, 2008

• Updated installation/uninstallation

3.0.3 - Mar 12, 2008

• Added styles, changed txt files

3.0.2 - Mar 12, 2008

• Fix problem with unreferencable object in imported content

3.0.1 - Feb 13, 2008

• Fixed problems with editing imported content.

3.0 - Oct 31, 2007

• Release for Plone 3.0.x

1.0.1 - June 18, 2007

• Release for Pone 2.5.2