I'm sufficiently aware of Zope to know it provides a far more comprehensive build environment than PHP ever will and I would like to adopt it as my platform of choice, but it would be nice if the ZOPE support community was as newbie-friendly as the PHP crowd. Loads of tutorials and worked examples would be nice too. Reading a manual is no substitute for being shown how to build a web page using ZOPE and just reading through dozens of isolated examples of ZPT techniques makes progress very slow. I would much rather see a tutorial which starts of with a relatively complex but easily reproducible template which creates an interesting page, but then proceeds to de-construct what it does and how it does it.
just in case you've missed it, open zmi add "Zope Tutorial" go through it write up your exp for other new users jumping in! hth
or you could decide that Zope does some stuff which you must have, in which case David H's stereotypical response
If you spent more time just *learning* Zope and HTML, etc and less time rationalizing your lack of progress everyone would be happy.
is appropriate.
I only need to rationlise it when people constantly keep telling me to read the Zope Book as if that is the solution to everything. Fortunately there are a few people here who can still remember suffering the same plight as I am currently in an I'm grateful to them for their help.
Good luck.
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