Nolan Darilek wrote:

For the past month or so I've been casually playing with Zope, but now I'm about to try using it in a serious application.

I've volunteered to help create a website to replace the one currently at http://www.muq.org. Since one of my goals is to have a community-driven site which allows folks to create accounts, work on projects and publish information and news about those projects, I decided to try running the PTK. So last night I grabbed the latest version from CVS and began to set it up.

You'll get more information on the zope-ptk list, I recommend joining it if you are going to use the PTK.

Setup went extremely smoothly, and before long I had a basic and generic-looking portal site. My problems began when I tried to edit it, though. I'm curious; I've read so much about the PTK's new, frameless wizard interface, but I can't seem to find it. If I want to

It comes into play when you log in as a user, and go to add a new Document, News Item, or Link.

edit the top-level index_html, what is the best way to do that? Should

I do it from the standard management interface.

I go to http://myurl.org/portal/portal_contents, or portal/manage_main? The "My Stuff" links seem to use portal_contents, but is that what I should use for editting the main index?

Second, the main index_html includes the following:

5 Jan - Space for a NewsItem.

So, am I supposed to edit that each time a new, newsworthy item is created by a member? I thought that, by approving news items, they would be displayed on the main page, or is this only on the "Breaking News" link?

You can do like I do, and return the results of a ZCatalog search. Or you can do it the old fashioned way ;) -- In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks. -- Wilbur Wright in a letter to his father, September 1900