We are putting together a set of design goals for the next revision of one of the web sites we manage. The site (http://www.elitefitness.com) aspires to be portal-esque in nature and looks like a good fit for Zope. I'm writing the list to solicit the names of Zope developers/companies who would be interested in installing, configuring and customizing Zope to meet our needs. If you or your employer is available for projects like this, drop me an email and I'll send you a more "meaty" document later this week. Breifly and in order of importance, our primary goals are: 1) To simplify the task of content management to the point where employees of Elite Fitness can, with little training or knowledge of HTML, add articles to the site. We would like the articles to automagically get formatted in the right way (i.e. With site-branding fluff around the content) and to appear in the right indices (i.e. If the author indicates the new article is about supplements, a link to the article should appear in a place where we've decided to group those links) 2) To enable Geocities/Xoom-like hosting of fitness-oriented web sites to anyone who signs up for one. e.g. If I register as user 'hug3D00d', I can create content that's viewable at http://elitefitness.com/members/hu3D00d ... or some similar URL. 3) To allow personal trainers to enter contact information and create a web page (hosted freely on Elite Fitness). The idea is to build a database of personal trainers so that visitors can query by geographical location and bring up the trainer's data and web page 4) To allow "featured writers" to add articles to the site in special branch of the navigation hierarchy. Only people who've received the distinction of "featured writer" may add content to this area, and then they are only allowed to modify documents that they created 5) To be able to make site-wide HTML formatting changes without editing each page individually. I know Zope makes it easy to do this. We just want someone who knows how to do it well. 6) This is the kicker... to unify registration for the free web space, our affiliate program (LinkShare - http://www.linkshare.com), our discussion boards (eShare - http://boards.elitefitness.com) and our mailing list (UnityMail - http://www.unitymail.com). We'd like people to click "Join The Elite Fitness Community", fill out some information and then find themselves with a web page, access to our eShare discussion boards, an (optional) subscription to our mailing list, and the ability participate in our affiliate program by just adding some special links to their new home page. If I was doing it in Perl, I'd use HTTP::Request::Common and LWP::UserAgent to automate the form submissions. It's trickier than it sounds because you have to check to see that registration actually succeeded with eShare and LinkShare. eShare, I know is very picky about what's an acceptable name. In addition to being unique, it has to also pass through a filter that weeds out obscenities and names that are "too similar" to existing names. This is more than a bit vague because we are still spec-ing out exactly what navigation hierarchy and features we want. The scope of the project does not include doing any HTML design work (unless you happen to be really good at that, too). We were planning on having a graphics design deliver a set of HTML templates to be Zope-ified so that new pages of a particular type would get the right template. If you'd like me to mail you some more specific information about the project later this week, please indicate your interest/availability by mailing me. Thanks in advance to any that respond! Also, I've just been lurking on the list for a day or so, but I see that <% %> is being debated versus some other options to tag python code. Why not use the XML syntax for processing instructions? http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210#sec-pi ... something like <?zope ... ?> or <?python ... ?> -- Andrew Andrew Bunner President, Mass Quantities, Inc. bunner@massquantities.com Professional Supplements for the Perfect Physique http://www.massquantities.com