[Zope] Using Zope

Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:38:24 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Jen wrote:

> 
> Thank you all for the helpful responses!  It's always nice when you at least have a direction to head.  I will have to take a look at all of the options you sent me and see what I can come up with.  I think that if we can find a way to make the interface like you have suggested Zope might fly.
> 
> I do have another question though...Say I want a custom header and a custom footer...and maybe even a custom left navigation bar...and I go with the Dreamweaver version...the Dreamweaver file will have extra <html><head><title><body> tags...what is the suggestion to take care of this?  As in I just want them to be able to edit the middle section...
> 
> Thank you, thank you!  You have made this research project a bit more manageable.  :0)

Sure it can.

The HTMLDocument product (a snap to set up) makes this easy.

You can edit a Dreamweaver file normally and it will place the
"standard" header and footer around it. The Dreamweaver user
doesn't have to understand *any* of this; they just
design the content of the page, and all the navigation, etc.,
falls into place perfectly.

A page like

<html>
 <head>Hi!</head>
 <body>
  <h1>News</h1>
  <p>This is news</p>
 </body>
</html>

might become automagically managled to

<html>
 <head>
  .. all the meta tags, etc. that the standard header has
  <title>Hi!</head>    <-- taken from their dreamweaver page
 </head>
 <body>
  <table><tr>
    <td>
      ... navigation column from standard header
    </td>
    <td>
      <h1>News</h1>
      <p>This is news</p>
    </td>
  </tr></table>
 </body>
</html>

(and since it's easy to script Zope to handle neat navigation stuff,
their pages can have breadcrumbs/contextual navigation, etc.,
rather than the same header/footer for each page.)

We use this in our consulting section (www.scw.org/consult).
Our staff edit the content pages in Dreamweaver, and
they upload them via dreamweaver. These get "wrapped" with the
navigation on the top, left, and bottom.

hth,
-- 
Joel Burton   <jburton@scw.org>
Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington