Developers

Best Web Page Development Practices

This article gives some practical hints on how to create accessible, standards-conforming web sites, and tips to work around some of the issues that will arise in making these sites work in MS Explorer for Windows. (Yes, it's an Apple web site. But the content is completely relevant.)

Skin Development Tools

If you want to create your own templates...

Building Skins

General info if you want to build a skin for your site or department.

Tools for Coders

There are a number of tools that can aid the hard-core coder in developing programs (Products) for Plone.

Customizing Archetypes fields with CSS

How do I change the way Plone looks? This screencast tackles a small part of that question, showing how Archetypes fields provide enough information in the generated HTML form to CSS style individual fields.

plope zope book online

Maintained by repected developer chrism, the plope.com site has lots of information including an on-line zope reference. Kick around this site. There are some good gems here.

plone API

 

Internationalization

Facility to provide content in multiple languages (eg: Spanish, Mandarin, Korean, )

ArgoUML ArchGenXML profile

For those doing ArchGenXML development, this file provides ArgoUML with standard tags, stereotypes and data types for use in designing Archetypes-based products.

subversion

subversion, aka svn, is what we use to do revision management. This contains info for various clients, links, and documentation.

Better applications - API info

There are a number of "web 2.0" things out there that we can code against so we can get with the 21st century. Here are a few links to those.

Coding Practices

If you want to develop applications for the university, you'd better be thinking about the people who will follow behind you.