[Zope] CMF, like it? hate it? why? other options?

[Seb Bacon]

Useful for:

   - indexing, metadata, skinning, workflow, some membership / registration
stuff
   - websites which work like zope.org

Useless (out of the box) for:

   - using the CMFDefault site to build anything you're likely to want to
build (i.e. non-zope-org style)
   - building a complex site without getting your hands dirty with python

Think of it like a toolkit of python snippets, all of which are useful for
building sites with the attributes listed above.  If you're comfortable with
building python products, it's a very useful toolkit, and worth learning.
If you're after something simple, quick, and easy, I wouldn't bother.

Personally, I've found it invaluable, but I've invested a lot of time in
grokking it.

hth
seb

----- Original Message -----
From: Jacob Singh <jacob@prisonbooks.org>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 4:56 PM
Subject: [Zope] CMF, like it? hate it? why? other options?


> Is CMF worth investing the wicked steep learning curve.  I really am
> banging my head against the wall with it.  Mainly in terms of how to
> make it look like and feel like a normal website and not one that
> members need to know what folder an article is published in.  It's all
> very confusing to me, but I se the benefits.  What's your opinions?
> Jacob Singh
>
> P.S. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about:
> http://cmf.zope.org
>
>
>
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