Moo's Ruby Red

A visual skin for Plone 2.1
Version 1.0

Copyright

Copyright 2005 Mikko Ohtamaa. This product is based on DIYPlone 0.2 product (installer code), copyright David Convent and Martin Aspeli. The orignal author of the default background image is Architetto Francesco Rollandin, the image taken from www.openclipart.com.

Purpose

Moo's Ruby Red skin gives reddish look for your site, with a bit heavier touch than Plone's default skin. There are no layout changes. The color world is especially suitable for social democratic sites ;)

The base color is Ruby Red (r153 g0 b0) and other colors have evolved around it. To see details, check skins/rubyred/base_properties.prop file. Some icon graphics is redrawn to be more suitable for the skin colors. Colophon (the lowest information bar with compatibility logos) is also hidden by default.

Changes

Compared to Plone's default skin

• Changed background and foreground colors in most elements 
• Tweaked coloring based on a workflow state 
• Recolored some icons 
• Redesigned some icons
• Added a new destructive icon 
• Added a new logo, changed how logo is rendered 
• Hid colophon
• Changed footer message 
• Region content background has a fixed background image

Installation

1. Extract RubyRed to your Plone/Data/Products directory 
2. Use Plone or Zope Management interface quick installer to install the product 
3. From ZMI -> plone_skins, go to Properties tab, choose Moo's Ruby Red skin 
4. You might want to customize global_logo.pt and footer.pt files with your own logo and copyright texts

Testing

The skin is tested with:

•  Plone 2.1.0 (Plone version 2.1.0 or higher is required)
•  Windows XP
•  IE 6.0
•  Opera 8.5
•  Firefox 1.0

Issues

With version 1.0:

• Some color definitions might not yet been updated for the new skins. Please report them to me.
• Some default Plone icons assume they are drawn on white background and when they have darker background, there are some ugly edges. This could be fixed by redrawing these icons. 
• Button rendering problems with IE: widths are not right. This also happens with Plone 2.1 default skin.
• History collapsion trigger uses background color instead of being transparent, thus drawing a block over background image if a browser window is too narrow. 
• History collapsion trigger icon is not correctly aligned in IE. This also happens with Plone 2.1 default skin. 
• Image file sizes might not be optimized.

History

This skin was orignally designed for my usability issue tracking site. The creation of the skin took about five man days. I consumed 3 x 1,5l Pepsi Max as fuel and didn't sleep for three nights :)

If you wish to hire a professional Plone developer (freelancer), please don't hesitate to contact. I am willing to work abroad.

Contact

Mikko Ohtamaa

Oulu, Finland

miohtama@mail.student.oulu.fi

Nick Moo (Moo- or Moo^) at #plone channel in irc.freenode.net