I like page templates because they permit uncomplicated cooperation with designers who don't know DTML and/or use drag-and-drop composers. Newbie I am, however, I see a few problems here, and I hope they stem from my ignorance. 1.) Can page templates be "modularized"? DTML is great for assembling pages from re-usable blocks, i.e. dtml_standard_header, dtml_standard_footer. I have not found an equivalent facility for page templates. Is there any? 2.) Symbols How am I supposed to work with symbolic information like table width? Of course, I'm free to create python-functions which pull the raw figures from a config-file or db, but having a separate function for each of the dozens of symbols I would need will give me carpal tunnel syndrome. 3.) Dynamic pages This is a more generic newbie question, since it is not confined to the realms of page templates. Let's say my site sports a uniform layout for hundreds of used-car ads. Each ad gets its own page which content is pulled from a data-base on the fly. This content is wrapped into identical hooks for banner ads, a header, footer and navigation bar. Without Zope one sets up a table of content with a link to each ad; each link calls a cgi-script with some id for the data-base in the QUERY_STRING. This requires the script to assemble the page, send the cgi-ahoy (content-type: text/blabla) and the <html> for the page. Is there a Zope-ish way to do this? I have not even found a way to access a page template from a script for reading. The data for Zope-objects seems to be pickled in files.db. Thanks page ______________________________________________________________________ Do you want a free e-mail for life ? Get it at http://www.hotmail.ro/