Schools Plone Theme

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Free diazo theme for Plone

This skin was designed and developed on order of Haywood Community Schools, Waynesville, NC. Quintagroup prepared the skin for free distribution for Plone community. Much appreciation to Haywood County Schools and Michael S. Williams personally.

Schools is a free theme for Plone from Quintagroup.

Starting from recent 6.0 version Schools theme - is a diazo theme for Plone.

Theme's 4.x releases are distributed as Python Packages and are available for download as a full egg. They contain all Zope Page Templates, CSS and images with design implemented.

Use the following links to get Schools Plone Theme for the Plone version you are using:

Plone version	Latest theme version	How to install Plone theme
Plone 4.1	6.0.6	Install quintagroup.theme.schools via buildout: see Diazo Theme Installation -- or -- Install via schools.zip file import in 'Diazo theme' control panel
Plone 4.0	4.2.2: zip	Plone 4 Theme Inatallation
Plone 3.3	4.0: zip	Plone 3 Theme Installation
Plone 3.2-3.3	3.3.1: zip	Plone Skin Installation
Plone 3.0-3.2	3.2: zip	Plone Skin Installation
Plone 3.0	3.0.4: zip	Plone Skin Installation
Plone 2.5	1.0.1: zip	Plone Skin Installation

Features

Replaceable header image for the whole site or site sections

Schools diazo theme with new header image

Customizable top area height
Styles for front page carousel (works with Products.Carousel): 4 demo images for theme's front page included
Editable images captions: title + description
Right top area is reserved for a portlet: the first portlet from right portlet column is displayed there
Replaceable logo and editable footer
Configurable column width
Editable color of links (& links hover, visited links)
Schools theme includes styles to display drop-down menu with quintagroup.dropdownmenu.

Installation

See INSTALL.txt file in the /docs section of theme package for detailed instruction on Schools theme installation.

Screencast

If you are using Plone 3 - watch Schools Plone Theme Screencasts to learn how to use this skin on your Plone 3 instance. Theme's basic features, installation instructions and main customizations are discussed there. You will learn how to manage site's carousel banners, how to use additional portlets manager, how to change top area image and logo.

Latest version of Schools diazo Plone Theme for Plone 4.1 was tested in IE7, IE8, IE9, FF 7.01, Google Chrome, Safari 4.0.5, and Opera 11.10 on Windows platform.