Look at the 'stageg-site' howto. That summarizes my approach. Use subfolders that have skins applied to them. Having multiple Plone is not necessary, or rather - I have not seen a case for it yet.
Alan > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Davis > Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 8:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Setup] Re: portal(s) for multiple/mixed communities > > Graham Perrin wrote: > > Hi, my first post. > Welcome. > > > 1) Does anyone here have experience with Plone serving the needs of > > multiple communities? > We have multiple sub-communities here at University of > Leicester but serve them all from one plone site. Seems to > work well (still relatively early days though.) > > > a) Is it desirable/possible/proper to have _two_ separate Plone > > portals (one for Freeman Centre, one for CENTRIM) somehow inter- > > linked so that searches of the former might include results > from the latter? > If you've a lot of interlinking, it would seem easier to > maintain, if all in the same plone site > > > b) Or should we, from the outset, have just _one_ Plone portal with > > Freeman Centre in mind, and CENTRIM as a sibling or subset within > > that portal? > That seems the better idea to me. You can have multiple > brands within a plone site, and don't advertise to anonymous > viewers, the fact that different areas of web content come > from the same plone site. > > > The catch: we should probably _not_ overtly express that > relationship/ > > subset. CENTRIM is geographically co-located (at Freeman > Centre) with > > a research centre on University of Sussex campus, but CENTRIM is > > organisationally within University of Brighton. > The only concern is if at some point this relationship > changed and each party wants to host their content > seperately, which would be difficult if it was heavily interlinked. > > > 2) Can anyone advise, how easy would it be for ht://Dig > searches i.e. > > from our University home page <http://www.brighton.ac.uk/> > to include > > results from a Plone portal? > I'm not too familiar with ht::/Dig, but its easy to get > selected content out of Plone using various catalog searches. > You can also search on metadata. even if ht::/Dig doesn't > find stuff you could append ht::/Digs results to a Plone > catalog search I would think... > > BTW you can also have RSS feeds from Plone to other sites. > > > 3) Are there any Plone 'horror stories' of which I should be aware? > ;-) Do NOT do customisations through the web - do them on > the filesystem otherwise you may later have a migration > mini-horror-story. > Be careful which 3rd-party add-on products you use - some are > great, some are not. > Zope Page Templates can be a pain to get your head around, > although very powerful. > > It is a steep learning curve but thats partly because its a > very powerful system. > > Hope that helps, > Nick > > PS Others may have different opinions about whether to have > one or more sites... > > _______________________________________________ > Setup mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup > _______________________________________________ Setup mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup
