Main topics and time schedule - Customization training
A good content management is the key element for a successful web site. Through its training courses, Redomino wants to keep all web developers posted with an extremely efficient technology: Plone.
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Main topics and time schedule
First day:
Morning
10:00 -- Presentation of the course, of the tutors and of the participants. Beginning of the first topics:
- Introduction
- Brief History of Plone
- Competition
- Plone-the-Application and Plone-the-Framework
- Passing to Zope 3
- Why to choose Plone - general considerations
- The Plone community
- Prerequisites and glossary
- Creating a Zope Istance mannualy and with zc.buildout
- Customization Basics
- Learning to Help Yourself
- Log file, error log, setting a PDB break point
- Development Tools
11:30 -- Short break and beginning of the new topics:
- Plone and ZMI control panel
- Architecture of a Plone Instance
- About Zope Application Server
- Overview on Features and Content Types ( skins, types, catalog, workflow)
- About Zope 3 technology assumed by Plone (views, adaptors, viewlets and portlets)
- Information architecture in Plone
- Plone Objects (portal_types service)
- About Zope Objects
- Creating custom Plone Objects without programming language
Ore 13:00 -- Lunch break
Afternoon
14:00 -- Beginning of the new topics:
- User Interface
- Controlling a folder default view
- Creating a custom skin
- About ZPT
- Portlets and viewlets
- Changing Plone Interface with viewlet managers
- About CSS e Javascript
15:30 -- Short break and beginning of the new topics:
- Security and Workflow
- Users and groups of users, permissions and roles
- Advanced control
- Creating your own workflow
- Finding contents
- The Portal_catalog Service
- Organizing Contents with Collections
17:00 -- End of the first day of training
Second day:
Morning
10:00 -- Beginning of the first topics:
- Managing configurations:
- Generic Setup
- Making a backup and recicling a configuration
- Content Import/Export
- Objects Rules
- Computerizing Portal Management
11:30 -- Short break and beginning of the new topics:
- Other optios of the control panel
- Setting up Kupu, Plone visual editor
- Versioning
Ore 13:00 -- Lunch break
Afternoon
14:00 -- Beginning of the new topics:
- Finding and Evaluating Products
- Installing a Product and Playing it safe
- Finding Help
- Converting Plone in a Blog
- Converting Plone in an Issue Tracker
15:30 -- Short break and beginning of the new topics:
- Case studies of production installations: More than a ZODB is possible, ZEO, Caching
- Zope as a Service: Backup and Database Mainteinance, Virtual Hosting
- Caching
- Autentication with LDAP
17:00 -- End of the training, the certificate of attendance will be handed out to each participant.
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