Evan, Thanks for the EXCELLENT post to the ZOPE Admin list (Digest Vol.1-#291-Message #1). I hope you, Evan, do not mind, but I 'reprinted' this post here: http://sohodojo.com/forums/Forum14/HTML/000001.html My primary interest in ZOPE is for the building of role-based executable business model frameworks (the technical side of our interest in 'ruthlessly small business' where the 'few heads, many hats' time management dilemma rules). You can find out more about 'ZOPE, Mirror Worlds and Executable Models' at: http://sohodojo.com/scripts/Ultimate.cgi In addition to the challenges of constructing these frameworks (I am an ex-Smalltalker who refuses to 'do Java'!), I am wrestling with the 'static/dynamic' problem as well, primarily for reasons having to do with search engine crawling, etc. I don't care what others' say. Of the search engines that count, my experience on our five sites is that there are plenty of situations where you had better have '.htm' or 'html' static pages, not even includes, if you want them indexed. (Getting hit doesn't automatically mean getting indexed, especially if the hit file is not parseable under the crawler's assumptions about HTML tagging.) So anyone with a commercial site (and not too big of an advertising budget!) that doesn't intend to use a combination of static and dynamic content is asking to become "The Invisible Site." I know, I saw it happen dramatically at one of our 'nano-subsidiaries', The Pop Culture Store. Months back, I thought I was so clever doing some nice Perl-based inventory management and item viewers. Within weeks the site did a 'disappearing act' and sales went with it.... the static item pages were an unappreciated good thing! (And, hey, no wisecracks about it being Perl!) Thanks again, Evan, for your thoughtful post. Best Regards, --Jim-- Jim Salmons and Timlynn Babitsky JFS Consulting, a North Carolina nanocorp http:.//jfsconsulting.com/home/nanocorp_welcome.html Our web businesses: http://sohodojo.com http://squirrelfeeders.com http://popculturestore.com http://sailabaco.com