RE: [Zope] help a zope newbie

I have seen few site powered by Zope. One thing I had noticed is that almost all of those sites are mostly static pages. I mean I am interested to see how can Zope be used for a portal. like containing many pages having lots of form variables. database connectivity etc. what is the performance then.

While it may appear that these sites are "static", they are probably very dynamic. Sites based exclusively on Zope do not serve *any* static content, all content is generated dynamically. See http://www.codecatalog.com for an example of a site which does a lot of forms processing and database lookups. It is based on Zope.