[Zope] Newbie : Zope publishing of Static pages

[Satheesh Babu]

Hi all,

I'm new to Zope, knows li'l bit of Python. Here is my situation, in a new
job.

  1) We have a fairly big site (25 departmental sections, 2000-1500 pages)
  2) All the pages are static (Yeah! you want to change the look of
             pages in your site, you edit all these files, or call a perl
regex master :-(

  3)What we want is a publishing tool, which can help webmasters to maintain
the site
     and to delegate responsibility to departmental contact points to
maintain their sections.
  4)From what I fiddled around with Zope, this is perfect tool.

  5)But, we've an IIS server running which serves the pages. My question is,
can I use
    Zope to manage the website? I know Zope stores the HTML pages in its own
database
    (right?). What I love to have is some situation just like that, but all
those facilities
    actually correspond to the files in the IIS root folder. (I checked
localFS product,
    but I'm not sure how to use that for such a situation).

    One *silly* way is to go to each page in the Zope site, save the HTML in
the IIS's root
    directory (He He! what about using "wget"?). But I think it is really a
stupid solution,
        *I AM A ZOPE NEWBIE* !!!
    (but I can use that - make wget run every 2 hours to automatically
update the site!).

If you have some pointers, PLEASE let me know! (Well, all this can be
avoided if I'm able
to use Zserver to serve up pages - for reasons I can't explain, I need to
stick to
IIS. May be Apache, if I cry out loud!).

TIA
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