Customizing Squishdot (Part 3) 
Zope Development 
Butch Landingin 
butchland@yahoo.com 
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This is part 3 on customizing Squishdot. This one discusses 
 the important Properties Tab, which is crucial in customizing 
 the look and feel of Squishdot. 
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<H3>The Properties Tab </H3> 
<P> 
The Properties tab contains those options that are intimately 
 connected with the DTML methods that make up the default 
 look and feel of Squishdot. These properties factor out the 
 commonalities in the webpage design so that they are specified 
 only in one area. By tweaking them, you can modify the names,  
 color schemes, etc. and other characteristics of the webpages 
 that Squishdot uses. 
<P>  
The following are the properties currently defined by default 
 (you can choose to add properties and use them when you modify, 
 add or delete the DTML methods in Squishdot): 
<UL> 
<LI>title -- used in the title element in the HTML head  
<LI> rss_title, rss_description, rss_image_url  are used to fill out  
 the data included in your RSS/RDF channel which is used for content syndication. 
<LI> the color scheme. Each one plays the following role: 
<UL> 
<LI> color1 - background border color (outside the main table) 
<LI> color2 - main background color (inside the main table) 
<LI> color3 - main theme color (background color of title bars) 
<LI> color4 - squishbox background color  
<LI> color5 - text color on "Read More" page 
<LI> linedot_image - url of  a single pixel image of the same color as 
 the one used in color3 
</UL> 
<LI> drop_shadow - set to 1 if you want drop shadows, 0 for no drop shadows 
<LI> round_edge - set to 1 if you want rounded edges, 0 for square edges 
<LI> title_image - set to the url of the image logo of the site, which preferably 
 should be around 50 pixels in height and no more than 200 pixels wide. 
<LI> site_name - the name of your website. Maybe different from the title. 
<LI> prevday_cnt - this is number of previous days for which articles are displayed on  
 the Older Articles squishbox 
<LI> comment_spillover - this is the number that sets the threshold at which 
 if the number of comments exceed this threshold, the comments will be listed in summary 
 format (with just the title and a link to the full text of the comments) will be displayed 
 in the "Read More" page. 
<LI> the admin_address and admin_name are used in the default squishboxes for contacting the 
 sites administrator as well as providing the sender info when email notification is enabled. 
</UL> 
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