Why I Love Zope: Success Stories (BEWARE: sappy stuff inside)
I run at least 7 or 8 Zope sites of varying shapes and sizes for about a year now and everyone once in awhile I just have to take a moment and reflect upon how much easier Zope has made my "web" life. There are some of my stories (que the music) - Recently someone took notice of a FAQ on one of my sites (thank you KnowledgeKit) and was trying to figure out how I kept it updated and allowed for user submissions. As I told them about the process (submit, email, edit, approve, go live and added to "new FAQs") I just realized how cool the system really is and how much easier it had all been to do in Zope. The kicker was when I mentioned I had the same system for the links (Thank you SimpleURL). They were stunned, to say the least. Go Zope. - My Brother recently had a child and not only was I able to set my new niece up with a area on the family site but gave my Father a username and password and about five minutes of instructions on how to get images into the photo album (thank you ZPhotoAlbum). I went to bed while he scanned away and published a series of pictures all by himself. Not only was he totally impressed with the system but in the content management features. Of course a link went out to all the family to come and take a look. Zope can now add a new tag line "Father Friendly." - I have been slowly getting Zope into more and more projects at work. We are now at about 5 Zope sites. This really shouldn't seem that amazing except for the fact that I in order to build the very first site in Zope I had to battle for about two weeks with arguments, case studies and ultimately putting my job on the line. Now, when building a new site they don't even question what I will build it in. Zope is CEO friendly as well. - Two of our sites at work were built at the same time. One in Zope one in JSP. Everyone worried about the Zope and how it compared to JSP (Tomcat). Fast forward a few months when the consultants who built the JSP site are gone and the two sites need content management and updating. I spent a little time with one user teaching them how to update some stuff with versions etc and they have been happily doing so ever since. The person who is responsible for keeping the JSP site updated has been struggling with code, FTP issues, compiling problems, etc. After about a month of struggling with her updates and changes she noticed the other user easily go in through his browser, do a quick change and make it go live. Fireworks erupted. She had a TIZZY! "DID YOU JUST CHANGE THE HOMEPAGE THAT EASILY? HOW CAN YOU DO THAT? WHY CAN'T I DO THAT?! OH MY GOD!!" To which he simply replied, "I don't know... I think it is cause it is Zope" (not really knowing what Zope was at all). (last one) - We were building a new brochure site (simple, graphic, etc) and the graphic artist who knows a bit of HTML but mostly works in DreamWeaver and has done a few Zope updates and image uploads in Zope before is heading the project. I set up a Zope server for him, gave him a username and password and basically went on to another project. A few weeks go by and I went to check to see how things had been going thinking that he would probably need me to get the data up there and start building the site in Zope. Not only was the site already built with DTML navigation that he had put in for location specific buttons but he was working on the second version of the entire site in a version. I was totally stunned. Just a nice set of stories for you to share with your peers when they ask you why you should/would or do use Zope. If anyone else has similar stories it would be nice to hear them. Cheers, J
If anyone else has similar stories it would be nice to hear them.
Well, I've only been using Zope for 6 weeks now, & I've already launched one site based totally on it in my spare time: http://www.noonsite.com , a site for cruising sailors. Early days for it, but I've already got my father & sister inputting all the information via the web in different countries, using versions not to break the live site, etc. I've forgotten how many times zope's blown me away, having spent my first week fighting acquisition & the usual newbie things, I now find I can answer about 50% of questions on this list - a very steep learning curve (ie going from zero to zen quickly!). Now I've just got to get to grips with it at work - I'm currently working on converting a 500,000 row postgresql/php media database over using ZPatterns... Regards, Ivan
Well done J. I've almost been struggling to convince my tech. dir. about Zope. By now I've almost given up, and I just say. "Zope is better. That's it. Take it or leave it." I was asked to build a intranet site for my company. I installed a Squishdot and changed the logo in the top lefthand corner. Don't give up. After xmas I will have recharged batteries for my propaganda so, I won't give up. cheers, Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Atwood" <jatwood@bwanazulia.com> To: <Zope@zope.org> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 2:20 PM Subject: [Zope] Why I Love Zope: Success Stories (BEWARE: sappy stuff inside)
I run at least 7 or 8 Zope sites of varying shapes and sizes for about a year now and everyone once in awhile I just have to take a moment and reflect upon how much easier Zope has made my "web" life. There are some of my stories (que the music)
- Recently someone took notice of a FAQ on one of my sites (thank you KnowledgeKit) and was trying to figure out how I kept it updated and allowed for user submissions. As I told them about the process (submit, email, edit, approve, go live and added to "new FAQs") I just realized how cool the system really is and how much easier it had all been to do in Zope. The kicker was when I mentioned I had the same system for the links (Thank you SimpleURL). They were stunned, to say the least. Go Zope.
- My Brother recently had a child and not only was I able to set my new niece up with a area on the family site but gave my Father a username and password and about five minutes of instructions on how to get images into the photo album (thank you ZPhotoAlbum). I went to bed while he scanned away and published a series of pictures all by himself. Not only was he totally impressed with the system but in the content management features. Of course a link went out to all the family to come and take a look. Zope can now add a new tag line "Father Friendly."
- I have been slowly getting Zope into more and more projects at work. We are now at about 5 Zope sites. This really shouldn't seem that amazing except for the fact that I in order to build the very first site in Zope I had to battle for about two weeks with arguments, case studies and ultimately putting my job on the line. Now, when building a new site they don't even question what I will build it in. Zope is CEO friendly as well.
- Two of our sites at work were built at the same time. One in Zope one in JSP. Everyone worried about the Zope and how it compared to JSP (Tomcat). Fast forward a few months when the consultants who built the JSP site are gone and the two sites need content management and updating. I spent a little time with one user teaching them how to update some stuff with versions etc and they have been happily doing so ever since. The person who is responsible for keeping the JSP site updated has been struggling with code, FTP issues, compiling problems, etc. After about a month of struggling with her updates and changes she noticed the other user easily go in through his browser, do a quick change and make it go live. Fireworks erupted. She had a TIZZY! "DID YOU JUST CHANGE THE HOMEPAGE THAT EASILY? HOW CAN YOU DO THAT? WHY CAN'T I DO THAT?! OH MY GOD!!" To which he simply replied, "I don't know... I think it is cause it is Zope" (not really knowing what Zope was at all).
(last one)
- We were building a new brochure site (simple, graphic, etc) and the graphic artist who knows a bit of HTML but mostly works in DreamWeaver and has done a few Zope updates and image uploads in Zope before is heading the project. I set up a Zope server for him, gave him a username and password and basically went on to another project. A few weeks go by and I went to check to see how things had been going thinking that he would probably need me to get the data up there and start building the site in Zope. Not only was the site already built with DTML navigation that he had put in for location specific buttons but he was working on the second version of the entire site in a version. I was totally stunned.
Just a nice set of stories for you to share with your peers when they ask you why you should/would or do use Zope.
If anyone else has similar stories it would be nice to hear them.
Cheers, J
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J. Atwood -
peter bengtson