Ok - I think I'll play with Zope 2 - I have a book on it and can flip through that. I'll play with the base Zope packages first and then hop onto Plone. I love the layout and look and feel of Plone and I'm curious about the visuals of naked zope. There's no better way to find out than to play so I'm hopefully able to dedicate today to that task. Thanks again everyone for your input. Much appreciated. On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 13:59:06 +0100, bruno modulix <bruno@modulix.org> wrote:
Alan Snyder wrote: (snip)
I'm going to research more into this, but from what I've read here, Zope is an application server and framework. Now, with that said, just installing Zope, in and of itself, doesn't give you anything that you could tinker with say in apache (like Plone). Zope is nothing until something else is built on top of it. So, I'm kinda at square 1 when it comes to designing an interface and CSS, etc. My hope is that I can start with what Plone offers and start to mold both Plone and Zope to suit my needs. I do need CMS functions in the apps I'll be developing (file upload/download, Wiki, etc.), so if I could get a consistent look and feel from Plone and still have the power and functionality of Zope, that would be good. Is this likely / possible, or, am I totally off here?
Some may disagree, but wrt/ the needs you seems to have, I'd rather leave Plone alone and stick with plain Zope. file [up|down]loadz, Wiki and like functionnalities are available outside of Plone, and building simple content management is quite easy (have a look as EpozDocument for a simple WYSWYG editable page base componant).
My 2 cents -- Bruno Desthuilliers - Analyste-programmeur bruno@modulix.org www.modulix.com