On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Jen wrote:
The HTMLDocument product (a snap to set up) makes this easy.
Ok...I hope you don't mind...I'm sure I'm asking some pretty "simple" questions, but I appreciate your help. I take it that this product then takes out the extra tags from the Dreamweaver file? How do I go about setting it up? Other than the Dreamweaver do we need to purchase anything else?
Purchase something? No way! (the ".org" at the end of my email address should give you some idea about my softwre budget. ;-) ) [see bottom] HTMLDocument is a free product, available from zope.org. When you install it, it allows you to add new documents to your zope site that, unlike normal zope documents: * CANNOT do any programming. No DTML looping, etc. (If I can assume from your email address that you're a ColdFusion developer, this would be like not having access to the CFML tags, or #replacements#, etc.) This makes it easy and secure for your nonprogrammers to create static pages, and lightens some security fears. * their <head>...</head> is replaced by a standard one, except that you keep their <title>..</title> content. * Their content is wrapped in your standard_html_header and standard_html_footer. This doesn't have to just a "header" or "footer", however, as many standarD_html_headers contain a left nav bar, logic to handle breadcrumbs, etc. After you've installed the HTMLDocument product, anytime you add a *.html file, it automatically make it a HTMLDocument file in the zope database. You can edit it through-the-web (for quick changes, etc.), or you can go into Dreamweaver, and edit it/update it that way. Dreamweaver uses FTP for remote editing, or (dreamweaver 4) can use WebDAV. [There's a patch for Dreamweaver 4's initial buggy WebDAV support.] Happy to help. Hope this clarifies things, Additional purchase recommended (not Zope specific): [ Dreamweaver WebDAV is very nice, but I think that WebDrive is a great product for $40. It lets you treat a WebDAV or FTP site as a standard drive letter under Windows. ] -- Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org> Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington