[Zope] zope intranet development

[Kevin Sullivan]

Hi,

	I am fairly new to the Zope world, but have chosen to undertake
development of our department's intranet. We have been evaluating zope
for some time now and toying with the CMF and plone. It seems that these
tools are overly complex for what we need. We have no need for any sort
of membership, simply just authentication and some degree of content
ownership will suffice. For this we have chosen to build something more
from the ground up.

	First, are there any simple tools that will help us to implement
these goals? Also in starting to build the site, I am faced with
choosing DTML or ZPT, any ideas on which is best for this type of
project? I feel like I need a starting point in how to develop this
project. I have a stack of zope and python book in front of me, along
with numerous web resources, but don't know how to approach the overall
design of this project. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance,


Kevin Sullivan
Systems Administrator
MIT Economics Dept