Hi all, I have been building my first project based off of Zope. Basically, it is an Article Store with an Interface built in for content folk to add and edit new articles. The other feature is a review function where users can rate each article and give some room for them to provide some of their unique thoughts. This site is based in China, so we need to control/(and perhaps edit) these reviews before publishing them live, and so the reviews first get checked by the content team and then can be published. (this review check is done through the content interface). I wanted to write a general review of Zope and my overall feelings to the list. My background: I have been coding static pages for some time and recently (the past few months) have done very, very basic editing in Zope. I know some basic Javascript and am starting to delve deeply into Python. (as a result of Zope) I have never solely owned a large project and in the past have heavily relied on teammates to build Zope sites. With the completion of my project described above, I am no longer a Zope project virgin. At first, I found Zope's dtml scripting deceptively simple. I thought, "oh, its just like html", but that illusion was shattered after getting a little deeper. At that stage, I was very frustrated and discouraged by my slow progress. I honestly thought I would never understand Zope. I guess this is the steep learning curve everyone talks about. After hitting my head against my keyboard a few time, I decided upon another strategy. I went through all of the Zope Documentation files and then started to go through all of the relevant how-to's (mainly on Zclasses, Aquisition, namespaces, Zcatalog, etc.) Then I hit the list. I had been accumulating a very large box full of Zope mailings, but I never went through them too seriously. I went through about 1000 Zope postings last week. I have to thank this list for helping me out so much. (indirectly albeit) At that stage, I was ready to take on Zope again. I have been at it for the past 8 days nonstop, and my project is almost finished. I am very pleased with my *quick* ability to pick up Zope. My advice to all the newbies out there... stick with it. You will be proud of yourself in the end but you need persistence. I still have questions on some tags and their behavior and Aquisition, but I feel confident enough that I'll get a handle on them soon enough. I have a few ideas which might help folks on the steep learning curve of Zope. 1) Create an FAQ. I think I have already posted questions on the list which never got answered because clueless newbies asked them 100's of times before. I think the questions which hit this list often should be compiled and put on the Zope site in the mailing lists section. This would a) help newbies out and b) sort out repetition from the List. Question is: who will do this? 2) Take apart a product or two. I went through KMnetNews which helped me out a lot. Not only did it provide ideas in action of how Kevin built the product, but it also helped to show me proper dtml syntax. Just wanted to post my thoughts for the list and again thank everyone who contributes. Tom