Steve Mueller wrote:
locations around the US and Canada and what I want to be able to do is to give our owners the ability to create/update/manage their owner one page 'home page' which will 'hang off' our public site. The pages for all locations need to be within a standard template and we should be able to determine what our owner-operators can update/add on their pages.
Sounds simple enough, and exactly what Zope is good at...
Also, some of the page content will need to be controlled dynamically by data within our existing franchise database(MSSQL).
A couple of ZSQL methods and an mxODBC database adapter should do it :-)
interface. Above all, creating/updating the pages should be extremely(and I stress extremely) simplistic.
Hehe, well, if you're looking for help, you may find my company's name relevent...
will not create/maintain their site. All this being said, is Zope my answer?
Yes.
Is a combination of Zope and Plone my answer?
I wouldn't recommend it for something this simple, particularly if your website takes a lot of hits. What kind of volume are you anticipating?
Zope and a combination of some other product(s)?
Yep, although mxODBC is the only extra one you'll need to add. Looks like you're well on course... cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk