[Zope] why shall I use Zope?

[Newbie]

thanks for your reply.

I've been looking around zope for more than 3 months and I like its
architecture.
I look deeper and have found CMF. It is also very interesting.

But at the first look, 2nd look and further looks into CMF are not enough to
make me understand on how to use its component and how to customize it.
so, the lack of documentation has made study journey become much longer.

On the other hand, I've just tried the easy publisher through the response
of this case for 1 hour.
Wow.. excellent. It just make my life much easier.

so, my question:
-Can CMF do what easy publisher is doing?
-Or what  is the advantage of CMF compared to easy publisher?
-From my blind experience (and not through the real test), I feel easy
publisher works faster than CMF.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Renfro" <renfro@tntech.edu>
To: "Newbie" <newbie@konzoo.com>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] why shall I use Zope?


> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 05:21:44PM +0800, Newbie wrote:
>
> > can someone give me some ideas on what Zope can be useful for small
> > scale website?  I understand zope as a good platform to build web
> > application (medium to large scale) and portal solution.  But if I
> > have only 20 pages of websites and news I probably update only once
> > a week, is Zope still useful?
>
> Possibly not, at least many of the overpowering advantages I've seen
> wouldn't be as noticable at the 20-static-page level. However, even at
> that level, the easy ability to keep standard headers, footers, and
> styles across your pages without having to think about it (via
> standard_html_header and standard_html_footer) is nice.
>
> > To use Zope, I still need to understand HTML if I create the content
> > using DTML document.
>
> Yes, but you also have the option of Zope Page Templates, which
> designers can write with WYSIWYG editors, upload via WebDAV or FTP,
> and then have a programmer work in all the dynamic bits. I suppose you
> could even use someone's custom content object (HTMLDocument,
> perhaps?) and write generic HTML with no extra stuff at all.
>
> > There are a lot of website builder such as Frontpage.  With
> > frontpage, one can manage his/her website locally, update it and
> > synchronize the contentt with the server.
>
> If you require Frontpage-style synchronization, you're probably stuck
> with Frontpage. If all you need is some sort of local editor that can
> upload pages after you're done, then Dreamweaver, Mozilla Composer,
> and probably several other tools (maybe even Frontpage in FTP mode)
> could be used with Zope.
>
> --
> Mike Renfro  / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
> 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu

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