Plone

This new site is running Plone: http://plone.org, which is a pretty powerful stuff. After we get all the content posted and working, we'll work on making the site pretty...

So Far

• Photo Galleries - Our plan is to get the photo gallery full of stuff we've been meaning to put into the old site. The Plone site uses webdav, so adding photos should be really easy. We;re using CMFPhoto and CMFPhotoAlbum. We aplied the patch, which fixed the problem of not showing photos (and correct counts) of albums consisting of only sub-albums.
• Quotes - I followed the example how-to from plone.org with some minor differences. I created a Document that has plain-text content of quotes, one per line. Each line is in the format "name - quote". A python script parses the document body into lines, randomly chooses one, then splits it on the first instance of <space>-<space>. A portlet renders this into a nice little quotes box. I also setup a RAMCache in the root of the plone site to cache the calling of the python script for 10 minutes. That way the quote only changes about once a day. This will concerve the quotes for a long time, and also speeds up page generation.
• Link Directory - This is using ATBookmarks. It is nice because you can easilly add links from your browser via a bookmarlet.

Future Plans

• Blog - Need to get the older site's blog entries moved over here.
• Other Stuff - Who knows after that...