[Zope] Beginners questions

[Lennart Regebro]

From: "Edward Comber" <zope at comber.org>
> 1) Is the Zope Book available in downloadable HTML form?

I don't think so. I could be wrong.

> 2) Can I (and are there reasons why I should not) get Zserver to work on
> Port 80. I don't want to confuse my users.

Yes. This is set with parameters to z2.py. It's documented in several
places. The most practical place is within z2.py istelf. :-)

> 3) ZPT vs DHTML. Straight away I am confused by this, and I need to know
> which to focus my attention on. I get the impression that the preferred
> order is ZPT, DHTML Methods, DHTML Templates. I came to Zope from
> programming in Python, if that helps. My plan is to start with ZPT - is
that
> correct?

Well, firstly it's DTML, not DHTML. DHTML means Dynamic HTML and is
something completely different. DTML means Document Template Markup
Language, and is one of the two template languages in Zope. Although much
better than most other template languages, notably ASP, ZPT, the new one, is
much better.

So yes, go with ZPT.

> 4) Is here a more appropriate place to ask beginners questions?

Nope, zope at zope.org is it.

//Lennart Regebro