On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Paul Everitt wrote:
This is a very, very important thread to me. I'm looking for two things:
o What questions should the Zope.org home page, and pages one click away, answer?
o What are some effective ways to answer those questions?
Currently Zope.org oriented primarily toward Zope developers. If you want to restructure the site to attract business eyes, I think the following questions are important: Q1. Frontdoor: What is Zope, how it can improve your business, why opensource platform better suites your needs. Q2. Frontdoor: What major players are already employed Zope. Q3. Frontdor: Zope news. Not developers news, but news in general: new zope-powered sites, articles about Zope in Big Magazines, etc. Short. Also additional page(s) with more details, and past news. Q4. Zope status: How to download, how and what to buy, quality of documentation, commercial products and support. Q5. Zope status: Latest and stable version, precompiled binaries for as many platforms as possible (not only because it is good by itself, but to attract managers and their developers). Q6. Developer resources: entry-level documentation ("I just downloaded precompiled tarball; what next?"), deep documentation, HOWTOs, list of available components. And some parts of answer for Q1: <B>Zope</B> is <small>free, open-source</small> component-based object-oriented <B>Web application platform</B>. Zope can improve your business by allowing you to develop your Web applications easily, with rights tools. Zope is free, thus making your applications cheaper. Zope is open-sourced, thus allowing your developers to understand every aspect of its internals. Zope conforms to standards. Zope talks HTTP/FTP/WebDAV/FastCGI/etc protocols. Oleg. ---- Oleg Broytmann Foundation for Effective Policies phd@phd.russ.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.