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TalkQuintagroup is a place to engage with us on topics important to you concerning the information technology industry. Read blogs from QuintaGroup employees, customers, and analysts, visit our forums and let us know what you think. The topics are broad and relevant, including Zope and Plone hosting, Zope and Plone development, Plone skins, web design and content management solutions.
Submitted by Olha Pelishok on Friday, July 16, 2010  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
This screencast is about quintagroup.plonegooglesitemaps product for Plone. It covers such topics as Plone Google Sitemaps package installation on buildout-based instance for Plone 3; creation of content and news Sitemaps, site registration in Google Webmaster Tools area and sitemap submit.

New screencast about quintagroup.plonegooglesitemaps product for Plone. If compared to a Plone Google Sitemaps previous screencast, this new one covers Plone Google Sitemaps package installation on buildout-based instance for Plone 3. Also, apart from explaining creation of Content Sitemap, we added example of creating News Sitemap and showed News Sitemap peculiar features, as well as new configlet added to News Items objects for defining News Item specific features.

In this screencast we also describe how to register Plone site in Google Webmaster Tools area, how to validate it and submit Sitemap.


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Submitted by Olha Pelishok on Tuesday, June 15, 2010  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
Video tutorial about free Schools Plone Theme from Quintagroup

In this screencast you will find information about Schools Plone Theme's basic features, installation instructions and main customizations. You will learn how to manage site's carousel banners, how to use additional portlets manager, how to change top area image and logo.


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Submitted by Olha Pelishok on Tuesday, June 08, 2010  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
Overview of the TinyMCE default visual editor in Plone 4. The basic text editing, including image insertion and external link insertion, is shown here as well as the procedure of customizing TinyMCE editor toolbar.

Submitted by Olha Pelishok on Friday, June 04, 2010  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
May 2010 was a pretty productive in Quintagroup in terms of updating some of our existing Plone products and launching completely new ones. Here is a short overview of the most important things that were done.

quintagroup.seoptimizer

To begin with I would like to announce that one of our most widely used products - quintagroup.seoptimizer is now upgraded to work with Plone 4. Its 4.0 version doesn't bring any new functionality but allows to use it on Plone 4 - based sites.

quintagroup.plonegooglesitemaps

Another popular product quintagroup.plonegooglesitemaps has gone through a number of updates and its 1.3 version, released on June 01, comes with several new features for New Sitemaps. News Sitemap created by a new 1.3 version of  quintagroup.plonegooglesitemaps is now generated according to the new News Google Sitemaps specifications.

There are some specific meta tags (such as  <n:access>, <n:genres>, <n:stock_tickers>, etc.), required by new Google Sitemaps standard, that are not available in Plone's default NewsItem content type. That is why starting from 1.3 version quintagroup.plonegooglesitemap brings special additional configuration menu to NewsItems for defining NewsSitemap-specific meta tags.

News Item Googlesitemaps

Such additional configuration menu is added only to News Item content type by default quintagroup.plonegooglesitemap settings since News Sitemap is expected to include News Items only. But if needed, this configuration menu can be added to other content types (if you plan to include them into the News Sitemap). See instruction for making this on News Google Sitemaps documentation area.

Please note: Starting from this release to install quintagroup.plonegooglesitempas you will have to to add 'quintagroup.plonegooglesotemaps-overrides' line to your buildout's ZCML area. See detailed Installation Instructions.

Together with quintagroup.plonegooglesitemaps 1.3 version, we released 0.7 version of quintagroup.canonicalpath. So, please consider updating these two packages.

collective.referencedatagridfield

collective.referencedatagridfield - is a completely new package, that is a mix of Reference and DataGrid fields for Plone. It allows to add external sources (as well as internal) as related items to Plone's objects. Custom titles can be set to the related items instead of their real titles. Also it allows to easily change related items order.

collective.referencedatagrigwidget

The package's aim is to help Plone developers to extend default Plone Reference field functionality or override existing Reference field functionality with a custom one. It does not bring this functionality to the Plone content types, but allows Plone developers to do that simply by following the example content type creation.

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Submitted by Olha Pelishok on Thursday, April 29, 2010  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
Yesterday it was the third World Plone Day. Here is a brief overview of its celebration held by Quintagroup team.

Quintagroup organized a half-day event with 4 talks for current and potential members of Ukrainian Plone Users Group.

The first one to present his report was Serhiy Valchuk who talked about New Features of Plone 4. He mainly concentrated on functional and UI improvements that Plone 4th version brings: new items in Plone Control Panel, Image Handling options, TinyMCE visual editor overview and new features in portlets management.
Serhiy Valchuk


Then Olha Pelishok presented her Overview of Calendaring add-ons for Plone. She provided many screenshots and illustrative examples of the following products usage on Plone 3 websites: CalendarX, Plone4Artists Calendar, zopyx.multieventcalendar, and vs.event.
Olha Pelishok


After that Ihor Berehuliak started his Search Engines Optimization of Plone sites report. He spoke a lot about peculiarities of SEO for Plone sites. Ihor described main reasons that have influence on search results and how to improve Plone site SE crawling with default Plone tools and with the help of quintagroup.seoptimizer, quintagroup.plonegooglesitemaps, quintagroup.canonicalpath and Redirection Tool add-ons. A big part of presentation was devoted to work with Google Webmaster Tools and robots.txt in standard Plone site. Also, Ihor made some suggestions about what is needed to be improved in Plone in terms of SEO
Ihor Berehuliak


The last one to present his ideas was Myroslav Opyr, whose speech was particularly interesting for Quintagroup's developers team. Myroslav talked about automating of development process, testing and Plone sites administering: Continuous Integration, Bitten, Code Review, Fabric, RSS/Jabber, etc.
Myroslav Opyr

Photos from World Plone Day 2010 in Lviv are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/quintagroup/sets/72157623955266658