Introduction
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NuPlone is a new theme for Plone 3.0 made by
`Cornelis Kolbach`_
Visual design, design studies, initial CSS implementation.
`Alexander Limi`_
Plone integration, additional CSS work, usability guidance.
.. _Cornelis Kolbach: http://cornae.org
.. _Alexander Limi: http://limi.net
About
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NuPlone is a "taste of things to come", as much as an example of how
radically different a theme for Plone can look, using just CSS.
It's a design exploration meant to inform the next-generation default Plone
look, but it's also usable in its own right.
In addition, it serves as a good example of advanced CSS styles in Plone:
- It is much cleaner and more compact than the old Plone CSS, which has
grown to become quite bloated over the last 5 years. If you want to learn
about CSS and Plone, this is a great starting point.
- It's an example of a static layout as opposed to the fluid layout of
default Plone.
- It is logically grouped and well-commented.
- It's much smaller (~25K uncompressed!)
Tips
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NuPlone is a bit different from the standard theme, and the following tweaks
will help you get closer to what the designers intended:
- Add the search portlet as the topmost portlet in the left column.
- Turn off icon display in "Theme settings".
Caveats
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Being a new theme, this hasn't received the amount of testing and quality
assurance that has gone into the default Plone theme over the years, so we
suspect there are bugs in various browsers, especially in Internet Explorer.
It is also implemented on top of the standard table-for-layout setup in the
default theme - please note that it's easy to make this theme tableless if
you should wish to do so. We have to ship something that is more robust in
broken browsers like Internet Explorer by default, though.
If you find any bugs (or even better: solutions for these bugs), please
report them in the "Plone issue tracker", selecting 'NuPlone theme' as the
component.
We hope you like it!
Changelog
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1.0b3 - January 12, 2008
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- Put in workaround for IE6 background caching problem, closes
https://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7445, thanks cwainwright
[calvinhp]
- Added missing metadata.xml to uninstall profile.
[hannosch]
- Added uninstall profile and hooked to GS
[MatthewWilkes]
- Removed DIYPloneStyle tests as they were almost all broken. Now tests
install, CSS and JS entries, and uninstall, but not modifications to default
views, etc. This is no loss as these tests didn't work anyway, as they
assumed a non-GS installation style.
[MatthewWilkes]
- Installed nuplone.css with lower precedence than RTL.css after inserting
RTL.css before ploneCustom.css. Added test to check for RTL.css
precendence over nuplone.css.
Closes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7177
[emanlove]
- Moved info bar on portal message to the right for RTL.
Closes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/8140
[emanlove]
1.0b2 - April 21, 2008
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- Resize images so they find in the content region (on modern browsers).
[cornae]
1.0b1 - March 9, 2008
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- Lots of changes
[lots of people]
0.5 - Feb 25, 2007
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- Added metadata.xml file to the profile.
[hannosch]
- Tagged the first version to coincide with the
Plone 3.0 beta release.
[limi]
- Generated skeleton product from DIYPloneStyle 2.5.
[generator]