Sisi,
Congratulations on your launch - the site looks great!
As for the online donations feature, I'd recommend looking at and
hopefully contributing (in development, documentation, requirements
definition, or however) to the PloneGetPaid product, which I believe has
some implementations already hooked up with PayPal. The project home
page is at: http://www.openplans.org/projects/plonecommerce and the
Plone product pages is at: http://plone.org/products/plonegetpaid . As
you can probably glean, there's a lot of recent activity and momentum on
this project, so it may be one to start leveraging and contributing to.
As for the manageable menu, we're hitting the same issue on a client
site we're working on (want top navigation tabs to be manageable - not
just auto-generated by listing all published folders at a certain level
of the site, and want the tab to visually reflect the current navigation
section.) If you get some good advice on this, I'd like to hear it as
well.
One approach, which may be less than ideal, but that I think will work
and that I think we're going to apply (if I don't hear of a better
option) is to leverage the CMFPublicator tool
(http://plone.org/products/cmfpublicator), if it works with Plone 2.5.x
(the product page doesn't indicate whether it'll work with anything past
Plone 2.1.x), or we'll build something similar and custom, but more
lightweight that just provides a custom type that acts as a list
manager. Create links (via ATReferenceBrowserWidget or something
similar) to arbitrary objects (could be some, but not all content
folders for a section of a site, or folders that exist at different
hierarchy levels of the site) and then just iterate through that list
when building the top nav. We'll still need to leverage the navigation
macro that build the top nav, so that it produces the -currentitem style
when appropriate to indicate the currently selected tab/section.
If anyone knows of an existing solution to the above scenario, please
provide some feedback. Sounds like it's a fairly common requirement out
there in Plone land.
Thanks,
Ken Wasetis
ken <dot> wasetis <at> contextualcorp <dot> com
sisi wrote:
Hi all,
Friends of the Earth International went olive with our brand new plone
based public site about fifteen minutes ago. The site still has rough
edges, but we're two weeks over deadline and decided enough was enough!
Total migration time just over three months (and we originally thought
it would take us three years, heh!)
Any faults and problems you come across please email me. You'll find
the site here: http://www.foei.org
Two caveats: I had to change the tab design to _not_ reflect where you
are in the site because of the way we are redirecting our urls (long
and painful story...). We hope to find a more elegant solution to that
in the near future. And, we're using PloneMultisite (which I'm very
happy with so far...) :-)
Anyone has any tips on a donation tool that'll work with paypal please
speak up!
Cheers,
sisi
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