[Zope] question about Zope capabilities

[Jonathan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Winkler" <pw_lists at slinkp.com>
To: <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] question about Zope capabilities


> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:56:34PM -0600, Terry Hancock wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:49:47 -0800
>> Rich Robinson <richrobinson2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > At this point, the site is great for managing content via
>> > the  database.  However, as far as I can see pretty much
>> > all the content  needs to fit into templates, with the
>> > result that there appears to be  little room for setting
>> > up a more free-form looking page that can  incorporate
>> > graphics in a freer, more visual way.
>>
>> Well, *ANY* system that generates a web page is going to
>> have that problem.  Yes, you *CAN* make it more "free form",
>> but freedom carries responsibility
>
> Yep. A quick-and-dirty solution would be to have some pages that are
> just Files with content type text/html.  But then of course they're just
> static html and you are 100% responsible for the content of those pages.
> So you'd have to balance the maintenance cost against the work of
> creating a "smarter" solution.
>

A less quick and less dirty solution could be to create several templates 
(each with different layouts) and serve them up at random.


Jonathan