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Using this Website
A short how-to on utilizing various features of plone
This website has been made with the Plone Content Management Framework on top of the Zope application server. If that means nothing to you, don't worry - all you need to know is that it is easy to use and customizable to your heart's content.
Here are some tips and tricks:
Here are some tips and tricks:
- To sign up and add content, all you need to do is click on "join" on the upper right-hand part of the page, and fill out the short form. Once you have registered, you can immediately start adding content to your personal webpage.
- When you first log on, you can only edit your own personal pages; in order to edit outside of that, you must be given permission for the folder. Bother Brian, and he'll do it for you
- The more content, the more useful the website is. When in doubt, post as much as possible.
- Switch your external editor to "Epoz" and use Firefox to edit; this way you get a nice rich text editing interface. To do this, click on "my preferences", and then "Personal Preferences". Finally, switch your external editor to "Epoz", and hit save. This will allow you to do better-looking pages without having to resort to HTML or learning Structured Text.
- One nice thing about Plone/Zope is that it is completely customizable; if you want a feature, or if something really bugs you, ASK! It is very likely that the fix will only take a couple of lines of code that Brian can do for you.
- There is a lovely undo feature; every change is committed to a database, and we can roll them all back. If you accidentally delete something, don't redo - undo!
- Use webDAV! It is a protocol that allows you to mount the website as a drive on your computer. This makes it much more easier to edit pages. See this blog entry.
- In order for others to be able to view your content, you must set it to "visible". In order for the content to show up on the navigation bar and be listed in recent items, you must change the state to "publish"