One problem with changing from HTML (or a content editor) to reStructured Text in Plone is that the text editor doesnt convert your old HTML docs to reStructured Text. However, my experience so far is that if you copy the text of the page (not the code), click on the edit tab, delete the HTML […]

Internal Links 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) […]

A really good article: http://kopsis.blogspot.com/2004/09/wysiwyg-considered-harmful.html

reStructeredText (ReST) is now the default content format for all the standard ATCT objects (Pages, News, Events) and EasyBlog, for all sites on this server. For now, if you still have Kupu as your editor then the default will be overriden by Kupu to html. Be aware though, that since we are going to use […]

ReStructuredtext has a "sidebar" directive. See a good example of a sidebar here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbachev Sidebars are like miniature, parallel documents that occur inside other documents, providing related or reference material. A sidebar is typically offset by a border and "floats" to the side of the page; the document’s main text may flow around it. Sidebars […]

vsCore which is used on Vasudevaserver has a few new features. Firstly colors of tabs can be changed through ZMI. Change colours Tabs  when caching has expired the tabs will change at top. subskin feature – Very useful, when you want to have many plone instances and still keep the same main_template These features are […]

With Plone Form mailer, you can design email forms through the web. We at Vasudeva Server have had occasion to use them a lot. Their best point is the ease with which you can actually get a form drummed up and ready on your site. The ‘edit’ tab lets you enter text before and after […]