But, I'm uncomfortable with loosing touch with an actual HTML/ASP document in an actual file system. I feel weird about the URL that Zope presents - there's no simple file name reference, like, http://www.abc.com/mypage.asp or http://www.abc.com/mypage2.html. Sorry, but my web experience expects that.

I guess there is a SiteAcess product that allows serving from file system, but it requires a bit of work: you'll have to write some external python method. In the near future, they will be releasing Zope 2.2 with virtual hosting capability, and it will be slightly easier to serve from file system.

2. How do you create/maintain the look of the site? Doesn't seem feasible using the Zope control panel. I prefer using HomeSite (Allaire) for coding HTML, ASP and any text file. MacroMedia DreamWeaver for complex HTML design/layout. And I like using MS SQL Server (although I could be converted..) to support data-driven web sites. How do I integrate these products with Zope (if at all). The HTML page editing/layout features of Zope are not clear to me.

My personal opinion is that Zope should not get too deep into the business of HTML file editing: it will never be able to compete with applications like DreamWeaver. Virtual hosting is the way to go: let content developer use DreamWeaver to do whatever they want to do, and then let the programmers write methods to strip the headers, insert additional contents (dynamically), catalog the files, etc. In short, right now it's tricky to server files from local file system. But soon enough (a few months?) the situation should be better. Hung Jung ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com