[Zope] Plone Newbie Seeks Help

[John Clayton]

Hi,

I am a Plone/Zope Newbie and have some questions that I hope someone out 
there will be able to help me with.

1. I have created a new tabs on my site as per the instructions at
http://plone.org/documentation/CustomizingPlone but when I select it, the 
tab isn't displayed in the selected colour in the same way that the Welcome 
page is for instance. I can see from the page source that my
new page does not use the selected class, but I don't know how get it to do 
this.

2. Another new tab (which incidently is displayed correctly and was created 
in the same way) is for teams (I'm developing a web site for my sons youth 
football club), and I have created the following Folder
structure;

Root Folder
  safc  (CMF Site which I think was created as a Plone site)
    teams  (Plone Folder)
      u9  (Plone Folder)
      u10 (Plone Folder)

I have a DTML Method called navigation in /Root Folder/safc containing

<ul>
<dtml-in expr="objectValues('Folder')">
   <li>
    <a href="&dtml-absolute_url;"><dtml-var title_or_id></a>
   </li>
</dtml-in>
</ul>

as per the ZopeZoo example in the ZopeBook.

My index_html (DTML Method) in /Root Folder/safc/teams is

<dtml-var standard_html_header>
<h2><dtml-var title_or_id> <dtml-var document_title></h2>
<p>
This is the <dtml-var document_id> Document
in the <dtml-var title_and_id> Folder.
</p>

<dtml-var navigation>

<dtml-var standard_html_footer>

If I visit the teams folder I get an undefined error type with a value of

portal_url not found in 'portal_url', at line 7, column 1

I have tried changing my navigation object to list 'Plone Folder' but this 
doesn't make any difference to the failure.

How should I be creating a list of Plone Folders? And have I created them in 
the correct place?

4. I was intending to use a free Zope host (ie
http://www.nipltd.net/Free or http://www.freezope.org/) but they do not have 
Plone installed. Will I be able to install Plone on either of these hosts, 
or are there other free hosts that I could use?

Many Thanks, John.



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