[Zope] Something like ezPublish in Zope....

[Ausum Studio]

From: "Jorge O. Martinez" <jmartinez@emediamillworks.com>

> Hi:
>
> I don't know of a demo open for the public, but I have installed it in my
dev
> machine at home (where I also have Zope, CMF, PostNuke, etc.), and it does
have
> separation of content/presentation/logic, so you can change the look
radically
> from the 'standard' look it comes. I also like you can have as many
> categories/subcategories, you can place an article in more than one
category,
> there's a way for internationalization, and there are other modules that
can be
>   easily added. Also the admin screen is very easy to use, and can be
easily
> taught to a total newbie. Not that all of the above cannot be done in
Zope, I
> am just saying that comes out of the box with ezPublish...

I've looked at the screenshots and certainly I'm impressed by them. Not that
much as I keep needing a working demo in order to try it out, though  :)

> ezPublish is not PHPNuke or PostNuke (both considered by many excellent
> software, I reserve my opinion either way ;-), ezPublish offers much more
> flexibility and chance for customization than these.

 For people following this thread and who haven't seen PostNuke, as it was
mentioned here, you may create a an admin account here, and then judge for
yourselves:
http://postnuke.bloodymongrel.com/demo/

> I was thinking the best of both worlds would be if the ezPublish
developers
> decided to port it to Zope...;-)

I think it's more likely that Zope includes or recreate ezPublish's features
that other developers port its software to another platform. Anyway I think
it is a nice challenge to review and mentally improve what you see from
other suites, and then create your own version for Zope. Would you accept
it? :)



Ausum


> Regards,
>
> Jorge M.
>
>
> Ausum Studio wrote:
> > Is there a working demo you know about?
> >
> > I remember to have arrived to ezPublish's site, and also to have left it
in
> > a heartbeat, just after reading "PHP" and relating it to Post/PHP Nuke.
Of
> > these last, I had the chance to test drive PostNuke at its online demo,
and
> > I came up to the conclusion that although it is a little more featured
> > out-of-the-box than CMF+Plone+ZZen, what was implemented was not the way
I'd
> > like a community site to be, and so I decided not to try it. (PostNuke
is
> > supossed to be more featured than PHPNuke.)
> >
> > The problem with OOTB suites is that it causes all the web sites to look
the
> > same, and therefore clients concerned about this urging us developers to
be
> > more creative and even more intuitive when creating a site's experience.
> > Nonetheless, as they are a great marketing for the platform behind them,
it
> > would be good to know what EzPublish can do so that we could surpass its
> > features in a future skin release.
> >
> >
> >
> > Ausum
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jorge O. Martinez" <jmartinez@eMediaMillWorks.com>
> > To: <zope@zope.org>
> > Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 9:34 AM
> > Subject: [Zope] Something like ezPublish in Zope....
> >
> >
> >
> >>Hi:
> >>
> >>First of please don't flame me if I sound like a devil's advocate
here...
> >>
> >>Does anybody know of a product as complete/mature as ezPublish (a CMS
> >
> > built
> >
> >>with PHP/Mysql, it's at http://publish.ez.no) in Zope?
> >>
> >>I have checked out CMF, and Plone, but although they are very nice, in
the
> >
> > case
> >
> >>of CMF, it seems that it does not have all the features that ezPublish
has
> >
> > out
> >
> >>of the box, and with Plone, there's still no 'stable' release as of this
> >>writing. Besides, both of these products seem oriented mainly towards
> >
> > building
> >
> >>collaborative web sites where all members eventually post news and info,
> >
> > and do
> >
> >>not seem to be oriented towards 'topic and/or category' driven sites
> >
> > maintained
> >
> >>by a handful of people only. I am not saying it cannot be done with
Zope.
> >
> > I
> >
> >>have also checked ZopeZen's code, but it's not as full-featured as
> >
> > ezPublish.
> >
> >>I know zope has the basis to build everything that exists in ezPublish,
> >
> > but I
> >
> >>was wondering if there's a Zope CMF that's similar in features and
> >
> > stability as
> >
> >>ezPublish out of the box.
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>Jorge M.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >>Jorge O. Martinez
> >>MIS Senior Associate
> >>FDCH-eMedia Inc.
> >>2400 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200
> >>Lanham, MD 20706
> >>E-mail  => jmartinez@eMediaMillWorks.com
> >>Phone   => (301)731-1228 ext. 105
> >>Fax     => (301)731-0937
> >>
> >>
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> --
> Jorge O. Martinez
> MIS Senior Associate
> FDCH-eMedia Inc.
> 2400 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200
> Lanham, MD 20706
> E-mail  => jmartinez@eMediaMillWorks.com
> Phone   => (301)731-1228 ext. 105
> Fax     => (301)731-0937
>