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DIYPloneStyle (2.1)
- DIYPloneStyle download link: http://plone.org/products/diyplonestyle/releases
- Homepage of DIYPloneStyle: http://plone.org/products/diyplonestyle
- DIYPloneStyle repository: https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/DIYPloneStyle
- Description source: https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/DIYPloneStyle/trunk/README.txt
Selecting a skin
Depending on the values given in the skins tool profile (see profiles/default/skins.xml), the provided theme will be selected (or not) as default one while installing the product.
Default skin can be set manually from 'Portal > Site Setup > Themes' in the Plone Web Interface (as portal manager).
Note -- a full refresh of the page and/or images (not from browser cache) may be needed after selecting a skin.
Creating a new theme
A theme for Plone is a selectable skin with associated stylesheets. This product is an example theme that is meant to be used for getting started while developing a new one.
It is very easy to generate a clean copy of this product (with customized names for product, folders, files, modules, etc) by using the generator script located in the bin/ directory.
To get script usage instructions, type in a terminal::
$ cd $INSTANCE_HOME/Products/DIYPloneStyle
$ ./bin/generator.py --help
Usage
Full documentation for DIYPloneStyle, with many pointers to other resources on how the "Skins Tool" and the "Resource Registries" work is located at http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/creating-custom-style.
This product is also the code example of Alexander Limi's step by step tutorial on how to create a look for Plone completely different than the original one, which can be found at http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/creating-plone-themes.
