[Zope] Sophisticated Editing of Zope Objects

[Brian K. Holdsworth]

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.

Best Regards,
Brian Holdsworth

-----Original Message-----
From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
schenck
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 5:49 PM
To: zope@zope.org
Subject: [Zope] Sophisticated Editing of Zope Objects


I am new to using Zope.  It looks very interesting, but one thing that
appears to be a weakness is the way you edit DTML Documents and Methods
(and other objects too for that matter) by using a simple text field in
an HTML browser.  For complex objects this looks like a serious problem.
Other than exporting the object, editing it in a more sophisticated
browser and importing it again, are there better solutions?

Thanks for the help.

Dan

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