Firday's Progess

Logo is UP. Tabs are being worked on. Teacher folders are UP, but I will need to write a script that automatically adds a placeholder page and sets it as the default view for the already automatically-created folders.

Update

Calendar works, home page works (built-in RSS for news!). The two main things left are skinning and implementing teacher pages and content. Honestly, that could well be the easy part.

Calendar woes

I had trouble adding the new YHS calendar to the Plone site, and asked the mailing list for help.

The quarter so far

Plone 3 is set up on maddog.yhspatriot.net:8080/Plone . You've got an account, boss. I'm working on getting you a folder that is your own domain, so you can play if you want to. I'm also working on finding a way to embed the GCal both into the page and into a "portlet" for the sidebar. Cox will have the tabs and banner soon, and I'll have the basic framework up soon, ready to start importing content and setting up accounts for everyone. Administrators and people in charge of the site will have full admin accounts, and teachers will be able to publish within their folders, and submit things for publication (pending approval) outside. Ideally, Gallagher will have the mail server up by the time I get to that, and we can send them all to the Google account, which can then be set up to forward to whoever's baby this site is going to be when it's up. The Google account is "yhspatriot"

First Quarter Summary

Okay, it's been interesting. I started off with basic web programming in Python, but I was convinced by people that know things about web programming was way better in Pylons, then Zope, then Plone, and then, hey, we've been meaning to redesign the website in Plone, and since you're working on it anyway...

So maybe I got a little more involved then I initially planned. I did succeed in learning more Python, especially about the web, and I've started to get better with Zope and Plone. Honestly, there's not much in the way of tech demos, short of a basic Plone site that needs add-ons and that nifty little blog script you saw back before it was abandoned in the dust of more pressing things.