Hello Michael, Thursday, May 9, 2002, 7:41:35 AM, you wrote: MK> Hey, y'all... New to the list, new to ZOPE, trying to learn. welcome aboard :-) MK> Using this code, exactly as-is, I receive the following error: MK> Compilation failed MK> TAL.HTMLParser.HTMLParseError: malformed start tag, at line 3, column 10 [snip] MK> Can someone clue me in on this? It's been driving me nuts.... Looks to me like you are writing dtml-tags in a PageTemplate-object.. PageTemplates don't use DTML , but TAL and METAL.. You should make sure that your document is a DTMLmethod or a DTMLdocument if you plan to use DTML-tags in there... PageTemplates are in my opinion a much better and cleaner way that DTML , but some people seem to be of the opinion that DTML is simpler to learn.. Anyway - your examples are DTML , so that's obviously what you want to do for now.. good luck :) -- Geir Bækholt web-developer geirh@funcom.com funcom oslo | webdev-team