[Zope] Sophisticated Editing of Zope Objects

[Tres Seaver]

"Brian K. Holdsworth" <bhold@awod.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

This is a very nice writeup -- please add it as a How-To on the Zope.org site!


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