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It's worth mentioning that Collage will not become part of core Plone in the future,
as the mechanism for organizing blocks of content on a page in the future will be
accomplished via a new drag-and-drop mechanism. The lead programmer for
Collage has stated, however, that there will be a migration path, but the reality of
this is unknown.
Finally, the usability of the Collage product is a bit clunky, but with some common
sense, it's easy to use and can be a quite powerful layout tool for Plone 3. It can be
downloaded here: http://plone.org/products/collage.
Tableless styling using Plone Tableless
A popular product for CSS purists is Simon Kaeser's plone.tableless. Plone's
default main_template is created using tables, which many themers do not wish to
use. To get a tableless version of Plone's main_template, simply install this product;
make sure your site's portal_css is in debug mode, and test the following code:
#portal-column-one {float:right;}
#portal-column-two {float:left;}
If you're able to switch the position of these two columns, the product works and
you can style in full tableless mode.
There are a few issues with Plone and tableless layouts that are unrelated to this
product, but in general it works. As of this writing, the product was not tested
against some of the newer browsers. It can be downloaded here: http://plone.
org/products/plone-tableless/.
CSSManager
End users often want to have some control over basic modifications to their
site—background color, link colors, and so on. The WebLion Group from Penn
State University created CSSManager, a product that gives a simple, through the
web interface to let users change the colors, borders, site logo, and other visual
characteristics of their Plone site. Essentially, it uses the DTML variables defined in
the base_properties.props file available within Plone.
The product can be downloaded here: http://plone.org/products/cssmanager.
To use it, install the product, go to your site's Site Setup area, and find the configlet
for this tool, and try changing a few options.
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