Hello, I am Jamie Robe, author of the Changing Text In The Footer And Final Cleanup
Footer
If you look at the website, you can see we are almost complete. One remaining change is that the text inthe footer needs to be changed. How would you think we accomplish this? Yes, we customize the page template for the footer.
- In the ZMI, click on portal_skins in the root of your site.
- Look for plone_templates (the same place we found the main_template) and click on footer.
- Choose your skin a_first_skin and customize it.
- This teleports you to your skin's new copy of the footer.
- Cut and paste the entire code of the following in the footer template, by over writing everything in the file:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"
i18n:domain="plone">
<body>
<div id="portal-footer" metal:define-macro="portal_footer" i18n:domain="plone">
<p>
Copyright (C) 2007 www.InSmallSteps.com
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Check your results
- The footer now has just one line in it in black text.
Front Page Content Area Clean-up
Clean up and rewrite the content on the front page of the website. Log into the Plone site and use the edit tab to make changes.
Miscellaneous Site Settings
While you are logged into the Plone site, make a few house keeping changes to the site:
- Change the visible title and description fo the site
-
- Click on site setup
- Click on Portal Settings
- Change the Site Title and the Portal Description fields to something relevant to the project.
- Change the "Site From Address" to an email that you can
read. This will allow the site to email you contact form info,
etc.
- Click Save
- Configure the email server so that the system can send emails out
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- Click on site setup
- Click on Mail Settings
- Change this as needed.
Let's review the site as it looks now with all our changes (click here for larger image):
The new site look is very different looking than the default Plone design we started with.
We just started to scratch the surface of designing and implementing new websites using Plone.
Congratulations! You have completed the
customization lesson.
