About this Site¶
the why and how of building this site
It's long past time I joined the Plone blogging world. It's also been far too long since I've been a consumer of Plone. Originally, I toyed with the idea of using Wordpress or Blogger, but my original inspiration was the flush of Plone 3 NuPlone sites such as those of Martin Aspeli and Tom Lazar. So I decided to eat my own dog food and stick with Plone 3.
I must say, it's been such a pleasure working with Plone as a user instead of a developer. It's a nice affirmation to rediscover almost accidentally that Plone 3 truly does rock. It's quite impressive how much I was able to do that didn't require any of my expertise.
I make a lot of use of collections as views for folders and categories. This allows for content hierarchy while also listing content in multiple places. Specifically, each there is a folder corresponding to category which uses a collection for its view that queries on the category. I create content in the folder that corresponds to it's primary category and then assign all categories for the content to list it in all the places it should be listed. I found this approach surprisingly effective and easy with OOTB Plone.
I also use plone.portlet.static which is similarly easy to use. Installing an egg, however, is definitely one of the areas where I was grateful I had expertise to employ. I look forward to seeing what the Plone community does to improve this story. With buildout, eggs, entry_points, easy_install, and PyPI it seems like providing a TTW, one-step, point-and-click add-on install story is just a matter of stitching together the pieces. Now there's a project that would be a lot of fun to work on.
Updated on 30 January 2008
Imported from Plone on Mar 15, 2021. The date for this update is the last modified date in Plone.
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