[Zope] Is Zope the answer?

[Ausum Studio]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Purkiss" <stephenpurkiss@btopenworld.com

> I've been asked to do some more development on a London night clubbing
site
> I wrote a while ago - http://www.belugablues.com


If you choose Zope and the CMF you'll also be able to easily allow your
client's customers to have a personalized experience of the site, thus
increasing their fidelity. Take a look.  :)

http://www.zope.org/Members/ausum/CMFPortlets/Preview


Ausum


> It was the first site I wrote in PHP (using Java before until I saw how
much
> easier PHP was) and so the code is not the best.
>
> I might rewrite from scratch, but I'm also considering rewriting it using
a
> framework or CMS as a base and was wondering if any of you good people
could
> advise whether using Zope would be a "good thing" - and if not then any
> other recommendations welcome. I've been looking through all the ones on
> http://www.cmsinfo.org and am just getting more confused. I want to find a
> system I can work with on more than just this one project. I developed a
> site using PostNuke, but the design of this site is quite tight and
wouldn't
> fit into PN very well - different world.
>
> Current Features of the site:
>
> * Event management systems so staff can add an event which users of the
site
> can book free guest list places on - a guest list is automatically built
so
> staff can print it off before the event.
> * General content management system for news, advertising, and page
> information
> * Membership system so people can sign up to the site
> * Email list function so staff can mail the whole list or subsections of
the
> list (i.e.. depending on when their birthday is)
> * Photo Gallery
>
> Requested features:
>
> * HTML email (ya boo :) with direct links to book guest list places
> * Enable for multiple countries & cities
> * Remove initial login page so people don't have to sign up until they
want
> to book something (as I suggested they did in the first place...)
> * Expand booking system to include hotels, cars, yachts & apartments. This
> won't be all online, but simply a form which requests start and end dates
> for booking the items then the rest is done manually.
>
> Hope the list doesn't mind me asking this - I've done as much research as
I
> can without asking. Any advice would be most gratefully appreciated. I'm
not
> afraid to learn new stuff, I just don't want to end up choosing the wrong
> system!!!
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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