Features / Demos want
Dear Zope developers, I dl zope recently, I think it will become a great site management product. However, I can not learn much from the docs I found. Here are some things in my mind, Please consider to put them into the docs and give some examples to get people start. 1. Auto (dynamic) Site map generation. A branch can be excluded by assigning a specific attribute to the folder. 2. Auto menu generation. Nodes with specific attribute on it. Can be horizontal or vertical. Just like in Zope's site. 3. News page generation. With automatic expire by designated date. 4. Ad banner insertation and billing management. 5. Search the site. 6. Expire pages by designated date. (will remove them from menu) 7. Backup / versioning 8. Personalize : like that on excite. 9. Access to meta information inside the page: time-last-modify, author, last-visit-time, version, visit-counter, meta-tags. 10. Support Spiders 11. Xml storage and publishing : store them with parsing, searchable, publishing with stylesheet (we may not want to give them all of the XML, may be part of it). 12. A better WYSIWYG authoring tool. 13. Multi-linguage management: use browser's lang perference to select language sent out, with auto menu generate in that lang and change lang menu auto gen. When a page is modified, list all pages need to modify in other languages. (some what like fontpage's task list?). Thanks for
On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 08:51:18AM +0800, Kent Sin wrote:
2. Auto menu generation. Nodes with specific attribute on it. Can be horizontal or vertical. Just like in Zope's site.
This is trivial to do, or are you complaining that you just don't know how? One of the neat things is to look at the DTML behind zope.org. I use TinyTables to control the side-bars, but certainly you could do it in other ways.
3. News page generation. With automatic expire by designated date.
Same here.
4. Ad banner insertation and billing management.
Can you say political hotbutton :-)
7. Backup / versioning
This to a large extent already exists, it just needs better documentation, and the ability to extract old versions into another database. I think some of this is in BoboPOS3
8. Personalize : like that on excite.
Waiting for the code :-)
9. Access to meta information inside the page: time-last-modify, author, last-visit-time, version, visit-counter, meta-tags.
Well, here's the problem... what's a pagee? ;-) How do you decide "last modified" and author when a page can be constructed of objects that have dozens of other objects inside them? What's a "visit counter" in this context?
10. Support Spiders
What do you mean by this?
11. Xml storage and publishing : store them with parsing, searchable, publishing with stylesheet (we may not want to give them all of the XML, may be part of it).
Um, you can store XML, and there's some other stuff to do XML parsing that's been written..
12. A better WYSIWYG authoring tool.
On what platform? I don't own a Windows box, Mac and UNIX only... this will be fixed with WebDAV in my opinion, and it isn't the job of Zope to push it's own proprietary solution.
13. Multi-linguage management: use browser's lang perference to select language sent out, with auto menu generate in that lang and change lang menu auto gen. When a page is modified, list all pages need to modify in other languages. (some what like fontpage's task list?).
This would be neat, but... this is a HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE task, and I've never found a web site that does it "automatically", only thru selecting seperate menu itenms. Make sense? Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli ``Television is bubble-gum for | petrilli@amber.org the mind.''-Frank Lloyd Wright
Christopher Petrilli wrote:
On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 08:51:18AM +0800, Kent Sin wrote:
13. Multi-linguage management: use browser's lang perference to select language sent out, with auto menu generate in that lang and change lang menu auto gen. When a page is modified, list all pages need to modify in other languages. (some what like fontpage's task list?).
This would be neat, but... this is a HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE task, and I've never found a web site that does it "automatically", only thru selecting seperate menu itenms. Make sense?
Actually, Chris, I think the Debian Linux home page at www.debian.org does do auto language selection. I've never experienced it myself (being one of those nearly-mono-lingual Americans everyone like to trash) but I've heard it is automatic. Couldn't resist - set Netscape to prefer German (de), force-reloaded www.debian.org, and lo and behold, there's a bunch of unreadable Deutch on my screen! (well unreadable to _me_;-) Ross
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On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Kent Sin wrote:
1. Auto (dynamic) Site map generation. A branch can be excluded by assigning a specific attribute to the folder. 2. Auto menu generation. Nodes with specific attribute on it. Can be horizontal or vertical. Just like in Zope's site. 3. News page generation. With automatic expire by designated date. 4. Ad banner insertation and billing management. 6. Expire pages by designated date. (will remove them from menu) 8. Personalize : like that on excite. 10. Support Spiders 12. A better WYSIWYG authoring tool.
I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes by saying so, but I'm thinking these are things that are outside the scope of Zope and what DC is looking to provide. Unless you pay them. I understand they're like trained seals where money's involved. ;-) However, they're GREAT "third-party opportunities" (to borrow from Be lingo)! Thanks for the ideas! Feel free to send any other objects, applications or tools you'd like to see directly to my personal mailbox. Or, yeah, like, maybe the rest of the list would be interested, too... -- --- | Mike Pelletier Work: 519-746-1607 /opeware! | Software Developer Home: 519-725-7710 --- | mike@zopeware.com Fax: 519-746-7566 http://www.zopeware.com | Zopeware is not endorsed by Digital Creations
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