[Zope] How to overlay one column of a page

[John Poltorak]

Andreas,

All you ever say is RTFZB!


Which Zope Book are you referring to?

Zope changes so quickly, that I have learned not to trust any 
documentation which refers to a version older than the one I am using.

-- 
John


On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 12:53:29PM +0200, Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> 
> --On 5. Juni 2005 11:33:42 +0100 John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I need some advice on how to format a page and am not sure how to explain
> > what I want to do but hope someone will figure out what I want to do...
> >
> >
> > Basically I have a home page consisting of a standard header and footer,
> > and three columns - the left and right ones also being standard, with
> > only  the middle column having content specific to a given page.
> >
> > What I would like to do in the left column is have a set of links to
> > other  pages on the same website with the content of each of those links
> > overlaying the middle column.
> >
> >
> > There must be a fairly straightforward way of doing this using minimal
> > codeing, but I can't figure it out.
> >
> > Can anyone give me a pointer to some sample code?
> 
> Create a ZPT and divide your template into slots (metal:define-slot) and 
> fill the content using metal:fill-slot. Everything's documented in the Zope 
> Book (there are *three* chapters on ZPT).
> 
> -aj
>