[Product-Developers] Diazo theming mission

[Jon Stahl]

Alex-

You should look back at the great work Veda Williams did on "OOTB
Plone Themes" for Plone 3.  Different technology, different details,
but the *process* she used was fantastic, particularly with regard to
QA.  http://www.coactivate.org/projects/ootb-plone-themes/project-home

:jon

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Alex Clark <aclark at aclark.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am interested in producing a series of attractive Diazo themes for Plone
> 4.1 [1] based on freely available (and CC licensed) themes. So far I have:
>
> * https://github.com/aclark4life/plonetheme.unilluminated
> * https://github.com/aclark4life/plonetheme.coolblue
>
> And will be adding more ASAP. The goals are:
>
> * Demonstrate how easy it is to turn freely available CSS themes into Plone
> themes.
>
> * Provide both Python packages and Zip files for easy installation
> (developers will gravitate toward eggs, end users toward zip files I
> suspect).
>
> * "Finish" the themes. I'm particularly good at mass-producing the basics,
> not as good with the full implementations and finishing touches. But I'm
> going to try :-).
>
> If anyone wants to help, feel free to fork and send me pull requests. These
> can end up on https://github.com/collective if there is enough interest.
>
>
> Alex
>
>
> [1] See: http://blog.aclark.net/2011/05/22/new-plone-theming-has-arrived/
>
>
>
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>
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