> I just had a funny idea. What if we would factor out the > weblog view into a > common folder view and package it as a standalone product, e.g. > quills.blogview. It would be applicable as a normal view to > any AT folder > like table-, thumbnail-, or summary view. Quills itself > could then (somehow) > flesh out this view with additional bloggish stuff (tagging it > IWeblogEnhanced, Portlets, Feeds, etc). > > Such a product would suffice for the most minimal Plone blog. > > Comments?
*Yes* +500 from me :-) I had the same idea recently as I have just re-designed and re-deployed my site using Plone 3 (and using QuillsEnabled). I found that the approach you propose made more sense in the Plone 3 environment and was planning on trying my hand at making such a 'Blog View'. I also gather all blog posts into a collection and display with the 'summary view' on the homepage and thus the normal Quills view doesn't apply there - but could with a 'Blog View'. I'm willing to test and may be able to help with the template if necessary. Suggestion: would it make sense with this change to incorporate a 'lead image' in the 'Blog View' to help make it less text heavy? With QuillsEnabled there doesn't seem to be a way to display a image with the post summary (or at lease I haven't found it yet!). One way could be done using http://plone.org/products/content-lead-image and just displaying the image in the view if it exists. Cheers, Duane _______________________________________________ quills-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etria.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/quills-dev
