Collective.Cover is a new tool for editing complex front pages in Plone. It was created to address the need for a front page editor that is easy to use, allows layout customization, and supports drag and drop and in-place editing. The tool is built on top of the Deco editor to help improve its capabilities. Collective.Cover was planned through community feedback and developed during a 10-day sprint. It is currently in production on one customer's site with an official release coming soon, along with continued bug fixes and new features.

1. Collective.Cover

2. Hector Velarde
@hvelarde
From México Brazil
Expert in information technology
and telecommunications, with
+20 years of experience in
different areas. Member of the
Plone Foundation, Plone core
developer and member of the
Membership Committee.

3. André Nogueira
@agnogueira
Co-founder of Simples Consultoria
I'm not a developer
CMS, design, usability,
accessibility, web standards,
information architecture.

4. Life style company
Focus in Content Management
Our main costumers are content centric portals like :
Media, intranet, government,
university, ONGs

5. What is collective.cover?

6. Tool for a complex
front page edition

7. Why another Plone
front page editor?

8. Over past 6 years we have
published 200 Plone sites

9. 98% of these sites were using a
product for editing the front page

10. 99% editors of this sites hate
how they managed front page

11. During WPD 2011 @saopaulo we asked to our costumers:
How an amazing front
page editor have to be?

12. What they are looking for:
Easy to manage content
Power to create layout TTW
Drag and drop
Permission for areas
In place edition
Ready to use (Plone 4, 5, 6, 7…)

13. We search
for options

14. CMFContentPanels
Easy to manage content
Power to create layout TTW
Drag and drop
Permission for areas
In place edition
Ready to use (Plone 4, 5, 6, 7…)

15. CompositePack
Easy to manage content
Power to create layout TTW
Drag and drop
Permission for areas
In place edition
Ready to use (Plone 4, 5, 6, 7…)

16. Collage
Easy to manage content
Power to create layout TTW
Drag and drop
Permission for areas
In place edition
Ready to use (Plone 4, 5, 6, 7…)

17. Collective.panels
Easy to manage content
Power to create layout TTW
Drag and drop
Permission for areas
In place edition
Ready to use (Plone 4, 5, 6, 7…)

18. Deco
Easy to manage content
Power to create layout TTW
Drag and drop
Permission for areas
In place edition
Ready to use (Plone 4, 5, 6, 7…)

19. There is no option

20. So we decide to
create a new one

21. How cover was
planned
Mockups
http://bit.ly/plonecover

22. How cover was
planned
Community
feedback

23. Cafecito Sprint
@ São Paulo – june/2012

24. Cafecito Sprint
Sponsorship: Fuego Bravo Aliance
Simples Consultoria (BRA) Ravit (ARG)
Openmultimedia (MEX) Mediaman (ARG)

25. X 10 days of working

26. Technical Decisions
Built on top of Deco
Help to move Deco forward
Share tiles

27. Cover is ready?
In production: Vtv.gob.ve
First official release in a few days…

28. Action

29. Next steps
Bug Fix
New Features
https://github.com/collective/collective.cover

30. Thanks!
Andre Nogueira
andre@simplesconsultoria.com.br
@agnogueira
Hector Velarde
hector@simplesconsultoria.com.br
@hvelarde
Photos: Alfred Eisenstaedt, Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis