I think if you have multiple people contributing content, it can be a good fit. Pros: The contributor interface can be made easier than the ZMI Skins are great - easy to switch presentation with a single source of content Consistent set of metadata Cons: Difficult to develop products for people new to zope products and python - I have yet to find a list detailing exactly what I need to do to make a product, I have just copied existing products and modified Difficult to integrate non-CMF zope products into the CMF Seems to be a bit slower than stock zope - RAM Cache seems to partially solve this Perhaps addressing your concern, I have put a little icon next to each topic, which when clicked starts a pop-up describing how members can get their stuff published to that particular topic - i.e. what metadata to use. The next step would be something like getting a list of all topics, and asking the user where they would like there stuff to show up, then prepopulating their document/file/whatever with the proper metadata. -Scott -----Original Message----- From: Jacob Singh [mailto:jacob@prisonbooks.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 8:57 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] CMF, like it? hate it? why? other options? Is CMF worth investing the wicked steep learning curve. I really am banging my head against the wall with it. Mainly in terms of how to make it look like and feel like a normal website and not one that members need to know what folder an article is published in. It's all very confusing to me, but I se the benefits. What's your opinions? Jacob Singh P.S. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about: http://cmf.zope.org _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) The information contained in this email message may be privileged and is confidential information intended only for the use of the recipient or any employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient. Any unauthorized use, distribution or copying of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy the original message and all attachments from your electronic files.