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Straight From the Show-and-Tell-Department

Today I'd like to steer the gentle readers of this blog to a fresh, plone-based website: albrecht-kresse.com. Not only is it plone based, but, yes! it's been designed and implemented (and hosted) by Yours truly ;-)

Now, while I have had set up a few publicly accessible plone sites in the past (and in fact, am already working on the next one...), this is the first one, that I'm actually announcing. Why? Well, the other sites are either vanilla-plone-installs without any design or are nicely done but stone dead. Not so with Albrecht, though! I think, he's really getting the hang of blogging, because, yup! He's not only gotten himself a nice CMS-based website but also a blog right smack on the front page!

All in all, I'm quite happy with the site. Most of all, because I believe it's actually *gasp!* useful. For example, Albrecht can - with the power of plone (and a little bit of ZMI magic) create password protected sections for participants of his seminars, where they (and only they!) can download material on the seminars they have attended (and only those!). Not to forget, that his site is searchable, accessible and has got printable views just like that, because it's plone.

Currently I'm taking a look at Zopes PlacelessTranslationService et. al. to give Albrecht the possibility to reach his English speaking clients, as well. Stay tuned...

Re: Welcome ;-)

Posted by Tom Purl at May 07, 2004 12:59 AM

The site really looks good. Does it use CoreBlog at all, or did you do some custom coding within Plone?

Re: Welcome ;-)

Posted by Tom Lazar at May 07, 2004 08:50 AM

Thanks, Tom!

I forgot to mention: the site doesn't use Coreblog at all, I've decided to give SimpleBlog a try, because it's a plone product and thus more integrated with the rest of the site.

I patched SimpleBlog so that the entries will show up in the Calendar portlet, that's the only custom coding for the entire site. You just gotta love XML + CSS ;-)

Re: Welcome ;-)

Posted by Jeff at May 10, 2004 01:48 PM

The site looks good. Congrats.

Re: Welcome ;-)

Posted by Tim Pritlove at May 12, 2004 12:26 AM

Really nice. Like it.

Re: Welcome ;-)

Posted by kas at May 26, 2004 07:00 PM

So why would we want to run COREblog? Why don't we all use the Plone based solution that you have created? It looks swell!

Perhaps most important of all: Why do YOU use COREblog? :-)

Re: Why COREblog?

Posted by Tom Lazar at May 27, 2004 02:31 PM

hi kas,

you've hit a good point there. And actually, I've had such good experiences with (the plone-based) SimpleBlog Product, that I'm planning to migrate this blog away from COREblog some day.

However, it's not a top priority, because I am quite happy with COREblog the way it is (also evident in the fact that I'm still running 0.5b...)

Also, currently COREblog is more feature rich than SimpleBlog - on the other hand ats has stated on the mailing list, that he won't be attempting to add any plone integration before he comes out with version 1.0, so my personal strategy is to switch to SimpleBlog now and perhaps support the author Danny Bloemedal with adding more features...

Give LinguaPlone a spin

Posted by Alexander Limi at Jul 04, 2004 05:14 PM

Give LinguaPlone a spin if you need multilingual content for that site:

http://plone.org/newsitems/linguaplone-techpreview

Re: Welcome ;-)

Posted by Jeff at Jul 09, 2004 07:28 PM

I notice your user is still active with his non-coreblog, zope based blog.

What are your feelings about this type of blog - today.

Re: Welcome ;-)

Posted by Tom Lazar at Jul 10, 2004 12:27 AM

@Jeff: good timing and interesting question, Jeff ;-) I just met him today and we discussed the site and its future...

Well, I'm glad I've chosen SimpleBlog for this client. In fact, right now the site is actually still too complex for him. As a Developer I still always fail to estimate how simple things need to be for the average user out there.

There are still some usabilty kinks that need to be ironed out (with Plone, that is...) but all in all I think I'm sticking with it.

I've kind of lost my interest and enthusiasm with COREBlog, to be honest... but on the other hand, it works just great for me as it is so there's no need for me to migrate myself...

But for new projects I'll definitely stick to CMF/Plone enabled solutions...

  1. s. nice hearing from you ;-)

patching simpleblog

Posted by rick hurst at Oct 09, 2004 01:45 PM

any chance of a description of how you patched simpleblog to show up in the standard calender portlet/ look at the code?

doh! i'm being blind!

Posted by rick hurst at Oct 09, 2004 01:54 PM

sorry - just found http://tomster.org/geek/plonezope/simpleblog-cmfcalendar

:-)

Re: Welcome ;-)

Posted by Jonathan Mark at Dec 20, 2004 07:34 PM

Currently I use Squishdot. It is reliable and simple, but it is in my interest to gain experience using Plone/CMF, so I would like to switch to a plone-based product.

Someone mentioned this site as an example of Plone/SimpleBlog, and it looks like SimpleBlog can duplicate a Squishdot page. But why do you have the Coreblog logo in the right column of this page if you do not use Coreblog.
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