Tony's Site

This is my (slightly unexciting) web site. I created this in response to two factors.

In sorting out problems I have relied heavily on information posted by others on the Internet. I thought I should put something back and share some experiences. Some of these may be rather bland but sometimes, when trying to chose between options, just knowing that someone else uses a piece of hardware/software and that it has no major difficulties can help the decision. Hopefully anyone googling on these topics will find my ramblings.

I wanted to get some experience with Plone, both in setting up basic content and with customisation. Thus this site started off as my testbed for Plone. However progress was slow. When I updated to Debian Etch, the Plone update trashed the site! I started to rebuild the site but this reduced my confidence in Plone! I have also found Plone customisation quite complex. Whilst Plone receives many praises I'm not sure its appropriate for part time dabbling.

As a result, I have decided to abandon Plone. Some of the lessons I learnt whilst trying Plone are documented in the site. Having looked at other CMS software I have redeveloped the site in Silva. This has the benefits for me that it is also based upon Zope but seems easier to customise. In a couple of weeks I have done in Silva what I failed to do in months with Plone.

This site is a low priority task so there may be periods of inactivity. It is also experimental, is work in progress and at any point in time may be broken, have artistically challenged colour schemes or a blue font on a blue background.

Please use the contact page if you have any queries/comments/suggestions.

Last modified 22/08/08