Plone have some screencasts which are an excellent introduction to Plone and how it works
Includes Screencast Editing with Plone
"How to use the Plone content management system to edit both images and text in a site. Demonstrates Plone’s built-in image manipulation and rescaling, as well as its rich text editing capabilities." 12 mins
Again from my email clear out, I have found a few more tips, this time suggested by Priyadarshan…..
You can just reorder the order items have in a folder just by dragging and dropping them around. This is of course of great usefulness, since the order in a folder dictates the order in the navigation.
This is an excellent recipe to make a static copy of a Plone site:
http://www.zopelabs.com/cookbook/1103609775
http://www.google.com/codesearch allows searches for source code
on the web. Allows filtering for programming language, license etc.
I was cleaning out my mail account today and discovered this rather interesting tip from Richard which he divulged to me decades ago…if you want to boost the standing of an image on your Plone site in Google Images, one way would be to make images viewable in navigation (via preferences -> navigation settings).
This is by no means an aesthetic solution; however you can always use workflow to filter out images you do and don’t want displayed in navigation.
Plone has been standardising internal links without a trailing slash "/" at the end. It is good to follow that standard, for both SEO reasons and data collection.
Links to pages and images should be like this:
/plone_basics/adding_internal_links, and NOT like this:
/plone_basics/adding_internal_links/ (in the first case, the terminating "/" is not there)
Note 1: when linking in blog entries which can have different urls it is best to add the full link like e.g /blog/archive/2006/08/26/atimage-tips
Note 2: Plone wysiwyg content editors can automatically change the format of links to:
../../blog/e.t.c which is very bad. It is advisable to either use reStrucutredText, or Dreamweaver if you really need to use HTML still.
Images are the same: .. image:: /images/vasudevaserver.gif
This is bad: /images/vasudevaserver.gif/
The bottom line is: Never add a trailing slash!
Also, please make sure images always have the type of file at the end (.jpg or .gif)
Factoid of the day: Owners can add images and files in Plone but by default they can’t edit them once the save button is pressed.
The default Image type in Plone (ATImage from the ATCT Product) is capable of scaling:
large : (768, 768)
preview : (400, 400)
mini : (200, 200)
thumb : (128, 128)
tile : (64, 64)
icon : (32, 32)
listing : (16, 16)
To access these sizes, append /image_XXX to the URL, where XXX is one of the above sizes.
Choosing ‘photoalbum view’ in the new ‘display’ menu when inside a folder containing images will result in a different view.
Example: if you reference /images/EasyBlog-Logo-1.gif on this site you will have:
One of the bees that’s been buzzing around in my bonnet recently is the issue of bylines in plone.
To me, any text that appears on a Plone page should be editable via a UI rather than having to edit a template. Ever since 2.1 the byline has been right at the top, so it might be one of the first things a new Plone user will wish to modify. An option to turn on/off the last modified date would be welcomed, some of our content contributors find it ugly and also a little misinformative if you have a site with contributors from all around the globe. At least it’s simple enough to remove the byline entirely, see here.
The same issue also applies to the colophon, the bit at the very bottom….
But to me the main issue is that to move the byline somewhere else requires a main template modification. I know its only cut and paste, but when you’re using other products with modified templates you kind of want to keep the clutter to a minimum. Since there’s only four places where 99% of sane Plone users will want to put their byline why not just have the ability to make that choice in a UI also?
Until things change, we are modifying the main template of our vsCore product to put the byline on the bottom right. We are also working on skin changes so that a photo of the page creator appears on the bottom right.