"Brian K. Holdsworth" <bhold@awod.com> wrote:

Dan,

This was my basic approach as a Zope newbie:

1. Used HotMetal Pro 5.0 to "prototype" my site. This was essentialy to create a template for the site with the graphics, navigation, and structure that would be used throughout. The goal was to tweak the look and feel that I wanted to capture.

2. Manually segmented my template into a set of DTML methods - like standard_html_header, standard_html_footer, standard_menu, context_menu, stylesheet, etc. This allows me to take advantage of the Zope acquisition capability to enforce my sites structure on all the content that was yet to be created. The goal was to understand and take advantage of Zope's acquistion features and products. If you aren't making use of acquisition, then you aren't making use of Zope.

3. Created a folder structure in Zope to represent the organization for my content.

4. Began adding my content by creating DTML Documents in these folders.

Here is the key fact - Once I got to step four, I really didn't need a "sophisticated" HTML editor. Most of my content just requires HTML header tags, <BR>'s, and <P>'s for the formatting. Acquisition does all the real formatting magic and I can just concentrate on the actual text of my content. For this reason, most any text editor is sufficient for my needs at this point. It makes a lot of sense at this point to just use your favorite text editor with an FTP capability to get at your DTML docs.

This is a very nice writeup -- please add it as a How-To on the Zope.org site! -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com