[Zope-CMF] Newbie question. - Templates]

[Paul Erickson]

Ooops, responded to Dieter instead of the list.

Paul Erickson wrote:
> 
> Charles Hall writes:
> > I guess what I'm looking for is some form of "template" tool. Does Zope have another name for this? I don't want my editors typing in any HTML, even if it's just "include footer.html" or something. I need a way for them to create pages and "fill in the blanks".
> >
> > Does Zope have any ready-made tools to do this?
> 
> I think that someone pointed out that CMF is a Framework, not a CMS.
> 
> The difference is that a CMS would have pre-defined content types, which
> could have a user friendly user interface coded for the "editors" to
> use.  There are already some of these built into the CMF, i.e.
> "Document", "File", "News Item" (Log into cmf.zope.org, click "My
> Stuff", then "New..." - is this the type of non-technical interface that
> you are looking for?)
> 
> If you have other well defined content types, then someone could code up
> an interface for non-programmers to use.  Thats where the CMF will
> become a CMS.
> 
> One caveat:  For any sort of "Rich" content (bold, italics, etc) that
> isn't defined at the data element level (i.e. All headline elements will
> be bold), the editors will need to either use HTML tags or *Structured
> Text*
> 
> -Paul


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