I am using a mysql database. Actually the sql queries with zsql are by far the easiest part in learning Zope :-) Anyway, I have the following problem. Some of the data also need to be associated with pictures. E.g. for countries, there are flags. Where should one at best store the flags? I thought it could be better to store them within Zope, so that they files can be used easily outside the database as well. In the site root I created a folder images, and as id I used the short tag of the country (e.g. ITA for Italy), which can be found in the field cou_tag. The method looks like this: <tr><th>Country-ID</th><th>Tag</th><th>Country</th><th><a href="listbycontinent">Continent</th><th> ></tr> <dtml-in countries> <tr><td><dtml-var cou_id></td><td><dtml-var cou_tag></td><td><dtml-var cou_name></td><td><dtml-var con_name></td><td><img src="&dtml-portal_url;/images/<dtml-var cou_tag>" ALT="<dtml-var cou_name>" align="absmiddle"></td></tr> </dtml-in> </table> It is probably rude, but I am a newbie :-). And it works, basically, but it is awfully slow, because for each entry it searches the images folder for a file. Is there a way to make this more elegant, and faster? Thanks for your help, Christoph