[Zope] why use zope?

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Chris McDonough wrote:

> Have you tried letting them in via FTP and/or WebDAV?  Or possibly
> constructing an upload form for new documents that makes use of a file
> attachment?

I know that this is probably going to meet with some resistance :-) but
perhaps you could propose an emacs editing solution?  I use efs (ange-ftp
works the same) now, after finding out about it on this list only a few
days ago, and far from hitting 'publish' -- I just save the document on
the server, and it's live.

You will want to rebind ALL the keys for them first, of course.

> From a user's perspective, there is little benefit to using Zope
> rather than FrontPage+IIS.  All they know is that they can't use the
> "Publish" button.  They don't really care about much more than that.

I don't know what kind of content you're dealing with, but you may want to
illustrate something simple, such as a document with
automatically-inserted standard_html_header and standard_html_footer stuff
in it, so they can see that they can maintain a consistent l&f w/o the
standard associated mess that's required on most sites, with little or no
formatting of their own.

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