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"Plone 3 Theming" was published in July 2009 by Veda Williams, a Plone developer for Groundwire. This book is full of all the information a developer would need to create a theme and apply it to a Plone site. Veda Williams does a great job of covering every area related to theming and mentioning additional products that developers may not already be aware of. This includes Chapter 2, which contains information helpful to all web developers, not just those using Plone. Throughout the book, Veda outlines best practices for theming, and I was happy to see that we at Six Feet Up use nearly all the same methods...

Plone 4 is about to be released and only a few products have been tested from a compatibility standpoint...

One of the talks that I found very interesting was "A Dexterity Intro for Recovering Archetypes Addicts", by David Glick. You can find the slides and recording of the presentation on the Weblion site...

I had the pleasure of meeting Elizabeth Leddy for the first time at the Plone Symposium East conference in Penn State. I also got to sit through her talk about "Unloading Plone: Tools, Tips and Techniques for Approaching Scalability in Plone Systems" and learned quite a few things. You can find the slides and recording of the presentation on the Weblion site...

A strong Content Management System must be accessible to as many people as possible. One of the areas that doesn't get much attention is that the CMS you choose must be easy to use. If it isn't, why bother to have one? A good CMS will not stand in your way of producing great content for the site; it will not complicate the process, only improve it. After all, the content is who you are, and you won't want to fight the tool to get things done...

Six Feet Up team members Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Clayton Parker and David Blewett traveled to Ohio State University in Columbus for the 3rd PyOhio conference last weekend. This year's event continued the momentum from earlier conferences. Python users from the Midwest gathered to learn new strategies, maximize Python capabilities and wrap up with two days of development sprints. The location of the event was a great choice, making use of OSU's excellent Ohio Union...

About to start a new project with Plone 4, we wanted to check on the "Faculty/Staff Directory" compatibility. Here is a quick note with our findings...

As I was coming to the office the other day, and I heard that one of Six Feet Up's clients, American Red Ball, was sponsoring an exhibit for another one of our clients, The Indiana Historical Society...

The next version of Plone is now in the Release Candidate stage and will be officially available in the coming months. I have been working with Plone 4 through the beta stages, but it wasn't until recently that I got to work with the new version as if I were implementing a design for a client...