Easier and faster Plone theming with Deliverance and xdv

What

One of the first things that people want to do with their Plone site is customize the look-n-feel. This usually requires making a Plone theme product which is an involved process and demands someone with programming skills. The process to take an existing website design and implement it in Plone requires a good knowledge of Plone theming engine, and usually the ones most skilled to create the design are the least skilled to implement it in Plone.

But what if you could make your Plone look like any website design knowing only basic HTML/CSS skills? Well, there is a tool available that lets you do just that. Deliverance is a middleware service that sits in between your Plone site and your website design. The website design template can be any arbitrary HTML/CSS - there's nothing Plone specific about it. This talk will give clear examples of how to get started using Deliverance to cut down your Plone theming from days to hours.

Who

Nate Aune

Jazkarta

Nate Aune is a veteran of the Plone community, having built his first Plone site in 2002, organized a dozen Plone coding sprints and served three terms on the Plone Foundation board. Nate travels all around the world evangelizing Plone and conducting trainings on Plone. Nate is the founder and president of Jazkarta, a Boston-based consulting firm that specializes in Plone and Python-based web application development.

Whether it's teaching video activists about open source tools in the jungles of Indonesia, extreme programming with sprinters on a mountaintop in Austria, or brainstorming with a customer about new ways to improve their website, Nate brings passion and dedication to everything he does.