An area for contributors to add notes about little things they found that help making contributing to the KplugWebSite easier and more enjoyable.

You definitely want to have cadaver in your bag of tricks. It will allow you to upload a lot of pages from your local machine to the webserver.

Using cadaver

I created a bunch of pages in lyx, used the export function to create a bunch of html pages. By using cadaver I was able to upload about 70 pages directly into the web server at one time. Here's how I did it. All the pages were in one directory on my local system, called authentication. First I changed into that directory. Then using cadaver I logged into the server. :

   >cadaver
   dav:!> open www.kernel-panic.org
   Authentication required for Zope on server `kernel-panic.org':
   Username: pacneil
   Password: 
   dav:/> cd /Members/pacneil
   dav:/Members/pacneil/> mkdir authentication
   dav:/Members/pacneil/> cd authentication
   dav:/Members/pacneil/authentication/>
   dav:/Members/pacneil/authentication/> mput *.html
   [Matching... 69 matches.]
   Uploading node42.html to `/Members/pacneil/authentication/node42.html':
   Progress: [=============================>] 100.0% of 2378 bytes succeeded.
   ..............
   Uploading node43.html to `/Members/pacneil/authentication/node43.html':
   Progress: [=============================>] 100.0% of 2847 bytes succeeded.
   dav:/Members/pacneil/authentication/> exit
   Connection to `www.kernel-panic.org' closed.

So when I go to the website into my personal folder I see an authentication folder and all my web pages under that. If I want to add this to the contrib directory on the server, I just contact one of the siteadmins and they create a link from the contrib directory to /Members/pacneil/authentication and it shows up in User Contributed Files on the web site. I can continue to maintain the pages, make any changes I see fit and all my changes will autmatically appear in User Contributed Files.

Using Stuctured Text

I found, quite by accident, that you can mix html with your structured text, or even all html, and check Stuctured Text at the bottom of the edit page, and Plone will still display the information as you intended.

For KPLUG Presenters

I'm going to create a seperate page called KplugPresenters with suggestions about strategies for creating web information for your presentation at the KPLUG General meetings.