web design, internet marketing, and technology Blog

This blog covers topics around web design, internet marketing, and technology I use in my projects everyday.

Subscribe to this blog

About David Todd Watson

I am a 34 year old American living and working here in the small town of Verdalsøra, Norway.

Technorati Profile

Follow WOW medialab online

View blog authority

aktivnett.no »
Web design, Internet Marketing and Technology Blog

Web design, Internet Marketing and Technology Blog

Blog Archives | RSS Feed

Installing Plone 4.0 RC1 on my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard

Posted by: david on aug 29 2010 @ 17:52:08

I want to install Plone locally to start developing my own Plone Products. So far the process is not very well documented, so here is my step-by-step version for newbies.

Read / Add comments

Category: Plone - Content Management System

Plone 3 Intranets - a decent how to manual for web designers

Posted by: david on aug 25 2010 @ 14:53:22

I recently picked up a book about how to use Plone CMS for small to medium sized businesses.

Read / Add comments

Category: Plone - Content Management System

Plone 3.0 - Templates and Skins, all held together by rubberbands.

Posted by: david on feb 26 2009 @ 10:33:17

Plone is a HUGE system which was obviously planned by programmers. Trying to move sections/viewlets around in the templates is not impossible, but not something a designer can do from the /@@manage-viewlets interface.

Read / Add comments

Category: Plone - Content Management System

Plone 3.0 templates: Customizing the document actions

Posted by: david on feb 13 2009 @ 18:35:58

In Plone 2.5, the document actions (print this, send this), are located at the top of each page as a link with an icon. In Plone 3.0 the document actions are now at the bottom of the page as a link without an icon.

Read / Add comments

Category: Plone - Content Management System

Skinning Plone 3.0 - Logged in or not?

Posted by: david on feb 04 2009 @ 22:03:41

While working on a skinning project, I took a closer look at what happens when a user is logged in or not.

Read / Add comments

Category: Plone - Content Management System

5 steps to publishing your blog article using Plone

Posted by: david on jan 16 2009 @ 00:29:42

This article along with some videos (coming later) were made for a recent customer, who has 6 employees who are looking at how to use our blogging software with Plone.