1 OCM U Plone 4 Introduction The Office of Communications & Marketing (OCM) louisville.edu/ocm

2 Agenda OCM & IT Intro Plone 4 Introduction (video) Comparing Plone 4 New Plone vs. the ninth circle, round 4, of Dante’s inferno UofL’s Plone 4 The Brandon Gaddie show Q&A

3 About OCM & IT OCM is under the Advancement Office for the University. OCM is charged with maintaining and promoting the university brand and strategic marketing mission, as a whole. louisville.edu/ocm/ louisville.edu/it To provide a wide variety of technology-based services in support of the University’s faculty, staff and students. UofL IT manages the traditional computing and communications infrastructure for the university. IT also support the instruction and research missions of the university by providing imaging and television services, graphic design, reproduction and printing services.

4 Plone 4 Resources Plone 4 websites Plone 4 themes Bootstrap.org

5 Plone 4 (YouTube channel)

6 Comparing Plone vs. Drupal PloneDrupalComment Effective44Both CMSs are fully operational and come ready to organize and publish content Efficient43The separation of different types of functionality inPlone definitely helps me go straight to where I need to go. The single admin menu to the left forDrupal is simpler, but can require many clicks to reach the section you need. Engaging33I don't know about pleasant and satisfying... neither is it horrible Error Tolerant54Plone can pretty much recover every item or revert every action by default. Drupal allows for good recovery of items if revisions are used. Easy to Learn24Instantaneous for Drupal: just use the left menu everything's there. For Plone a bit more use is required before the user can master the different administrative menus. Both require a bit of time before the user remembers how administrative tasks are called and structured. Plone Drupal ProsItems of content are created in or placed into a directory structure which is very similar to the desktop view on a personal computer. This makes grasping the paradigm easier on average users. Moving multiple items around is easier this way A node can easily have child objects linked to it, regardless of its type. Changing an item's location can quickly be done from the item itself ConsExtra effort is required with each node for the display (need to select a page as default display) Folders may need replaced by pages and pages may need evolved to a "folder + default page view" combo, as content is removed or added. Item structure is not beginner friendly PloneDrupal Super Feature3 states workflow: private, submitted, public Nice variety of content types Collections (custom search + custom ranking of items) Forum, Blog, Blog API, Comments Customizable theme Badly MissingBlog: a CMS without a blogging feature out of the box... Does it still exist? Basic theme customization (color set at least) More content types Any interactive calendar widget/block

7 Plone 3 vs. Plone 4

8 UofL & Plone 4 Individual instances More, generic, pre-branded templates Multiple theme templates to choose from (pending) Bootstrap Established platform for rapid development of common web elements Example: Adding a button is as simple as adding class='.btn' to anything and it styles it Lightweight and takes advantage of HTML5 and CSS3 Quickest way to get a grid structure and responsive design to scale throughout UofL sites Honestly it takes OCM and IT out of the equation for those folks comfortable enough to edit HTML. They can easily create an infinite number of designs and layouts without having to do brand-compliant design/CSS work

9 Plone UofL Custom Programmed Features New UofL Theme Flash Server Credit Card Gateway

10 Contact OCM Online Contact Jeff Rushton – digital media Office of Communications & Marketing IT Contact Brandon Gaddie – king of the world Information Technology, Next Gen Services