[Zope] planning new site, Zope questions

[Andy McKay]

> Hi,
>
> we're planning a major update of our site and we are considering using
Zope
> for it.  However, I still have some questions left :
> (Note : we are absolute beginners in Zope)
> - we have no experience in developing with Python, is it easy to adopt
this
> language ?

Yes.

> - for the site content, we have non-professional writers (they don't
> even know html).  So we will need a simple to use content management
system.
> I understand, the management screens are suiteable.  Is there some way to
> customize these for super-inexperienced people ?

Yes, Zope is perfect for this.

> - the site will need a good search engine.  Since we will be putting all
of
> our articles in a separate database, is it still possible to use ZCatalog
?

Yes, but not that easy. Does this separate database provide a full text,
search, if it does that may be a better solution,

> - how easy is it to maintain an Enhydra based website ?  Generally and
> technically speaking ofcourse, I understand this has a lot to do with
> the complexity of it.

Dunno.

> - could you point me to some 'large' sites using Zope ?  I have to
convince
> some people ;-)

Look at the Case Studies on Zope.org, depends what you mean by "large" of
course.

> Thank you very much !

You're welcome.

--
  Andy McKay.