Hi Rajkumar, Zope does not have a feature where you can "pull a lever" and produce a set of static HTML files representing your site like some other content management systems. All content is generated dynamically. However, many people (including Zope Corp) have used Zope combined with Squid or other HTTP cache servers to take most of the burden off Zope for most requests to the website. If it's performance you're worried about, caching is the "biggest bang for the buck" solution. It's not uncommon to be able to service upwards of 95% of your web requests out of cache. You can use Apache or another webserver to continue serving the static portions of your site and move the functions performed by the static HTML into Zope one at a time... you can also choose to import the entire site into Zope and start serving it right away, but it's probably not worth it. You want to make things better, not keep them the same, and serving static HTML is not one of Zope's strong points. I suggest gathering requirements for what you want the system to do, then develop a few "test" pieces in Zope to get a flavor for how it works; try to make these test pieces do something that the existing "flatfile" site already does to see how Zope development is different. Zope supports XML templating via Zope Page Templates... there are also addons available for XSLT (although I've never used them). To manage Framemaker files in a Zope site, either use WebDAV, FTP, or a shared directory served by LocalFS. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ganeshan, Rajkumar (IWMI-HQ) To: 'zope@zope.org' Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 8:54 AM Subject: [Zope] Content Management Solution Dear Zope Users, Developers and Zope Support, Let me introduce myself first. I am Raj, webmaster for International Water Management Institute (IWMI) . We are in the process of automating our workflow and document flow for our website and intranet. The solution is a Content management server. We are an International Scientific Research Organization ( Non Governmental Org ) researching on Water Management issues. I have extensively studied a couple of content management servers and at last shortlisted two. One is Zope and the other one is Interwoven's Teamsite. Interwoven's team site boasts of a hybrid system that is both data-base driven and static document content. But as far as I have studied if I am not mistaken Zope doesnt support a hybrid solution. Its only database driven. We have already build the website up and running ( www.iwmi.org) and in the process of building our intranet. The website consists of about 6,000 to 7,000 html pages. So when it comes to migration issues to Zope, does Zope support these static documents as it is ? And does Zope support XML templating ? And does Zope support file management concepts ? And can we use Zope with Adobe Framemaker ? Other than these 4 issues I am completely satisfied with the product. Please clarify as soon as possible. Thanks with regards, Raj Webmaster, IWMI, Sri Lanka.