First let me say YES and THANKS! While not wanting to compare Zope to Cold Fusion or Site Server there is finally an alternative for the rest of us AND it's Open Source! :-) This is exactly (I think) what I've been looking for! I stumbled onto it on Friday night, read everything I could get my hands on by Sunday and am now ready to install it. I do have one HUGE newbie type question for the more experienced user base at large... Currently I have a large base of (IMHO) very nice legacy pages (they include a lot of tables, some with frames, etc. all of which take time to create). They were designed in FrontPage (as I have access to it and Site Server) over the last two months or so and are at the heart of my tiny startup (along with the business logic of course). I would REALLY like to move these pages into Zope rather than reconstruct them as it would have an adverse effect on my sites launch date. Even more so than the moving into Zope itself. Of course I am fully willing to remove everything but standard HTML or anything else that would help the transition. Is it possible? A lot of work? As I haven't installed Zope yet I have not seen or experienced any of the design tools DTML, etc. and I have not found anything really directly related to this in the mail list archives. Of course any help is truly appreciated! Christopher -------------------------------- Christopher Rines Email : crines@activepersona.com Web : www.activepersona.com --------------------------------
hi chris, you might want to look at the fsimport.py-script, downloadable at http://www.zope.org:8080/Download/Contrib/fsimport.py this script lets you take a "normal" static web page hierarchy and import it into zope. as far as i know it works with the current version, 2.0.1 hope this helps jens P.S.: and yes, please do everyone a *BIG* favor and remove as much of the proprietary M$ extensions as you can. i "developed" a site under frontpage that, due to those, was not displayable in anything but IE.
-----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org Behalf Of Christopher Rines Subject: [Zope] Yes!
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I would REALLY like to move these pages into Zope rather than reconstruct them as it would have an adverse effect on my sites launch date. Even more so than the moving into Zope itself.
Of course I am fully willing to remove everything but standard HTML or anything else that would help the transition.
Is it possible? A lot of work? As I haven't installed Zope yet I have not seen or experienced any of the design tools DTML, etc. and I have not found anything really directly related to this in the mail list archives. </snip>
: On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:29:58 -0700, Christopher Rines wrote:
Currently I have a large base of (IMHO) very nice legacy pages ... I would REALLY like to move these pages into Zope rather than reconstruct them as it would have an adverse effect on my sites launch date. Even more so than the moving into Zope itself.
Well, I moved quite a few pages into Zope by firing up ZServer and connecting to the FTP server part of it. Alert: the FTP server does not like it when you have more than a single session / thread uploading to it.
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