Thanks for that insight Shawn... Rafael.
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 18:55, Shawn wrote: > Most of the site is out of the box Zope and Plone. I've modified the header > file to use my image header, modified the footer to remove text not > pertinent to my site, and modified the visible tabs (I don't expect to do a > lot of news or events at this point). I've also modified the "slots" to > remove the Login box and About box on the left, the calendar on the right, > and added the events box. > > This was all done using the Zope and Plone management interfaces, and didn't > require any coding on my part. The troubles are finding the information to > do all this. I had to dig for bout a week to get to where I'm at now. > Still need to dig/research more to modify the template the way I'd like - > I'll probablly need to do some code for this though. The best places I've > found to help with Zope and Plone are the Zope Book, and the Plone Book. > These are available on their respective sites. It's a different way of > looking at web sites (i.e. object based, not file based), so takes a bit of > abstract thinking (at least thinking through things a bit more at first). > > I'm intending on documenting the steps I had to go through on my site. > Partly to record it for when/if I need to do it again, and partly to share > the information and help improve the available documentation. But that will > be a week or so yet. > > Hope that helps some.... > > Shawn > > > -----Original Message----- > From: J. Rafael Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 4:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) website comment - Suggestions? > > > Hi Shawn, > The site looks really neat. It's very clean and well organized, easy to > navigate and to look at. > > By the way, if I may ask, are you using css or such. How are you making > use of zope and plone on the site? > > If you can point me to the right place, I can do the reading myself if > you like. Thanks. > > Rafael. > > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 23:02, Shawn wrote: > > My roommate has discovered this week that the older Compaq PC they have > > recently acquired is running Win 95, and refuses to recognize the DLink > > DFE-538TX card in it. It also refuses to properly read my (somewhat > > scratched) Win 98 CD. So, I suggested Linux to her. > > > > Now, I'm looking for some suggestions on which distro to install for her. > > I'm not looking to start any flames or long discussions on the merits of > one > > distro over another. I just want an idea of which distro to look at for > the > > Installfest with this box. She has some skills - she installed the NIC > > herself, and can install Windows if needed - but she has never worked with > > Linux before. She primarily want's email and web browsing capabilities. > > She will need the occasional office type tool as well (OpenOffice will do > > the job for her). So, the requirements aren't that great. > > > > I was thinking Suse or Mandrake would do the trick. Anyone have any > > comments, or reasons I shouldn't consider these? I'd like to make her > Linux > > experience as smooth as possible. (oh, I don't have all the specs for the > > box either, but I think it's a P300.) > > > > On a different note, I finally got Zope and Plone running, and my website > > has been switched over (http://www.open2space.com), and I've placed an > event > > on the site for the Installfest. Comments on the site are welcomed. > (though > > I'm still working on the template/layout of the site) > > > > Shawn
