[Zope3-Users] giving back: montisite

[Cliff Ford]

In the spirit of giving back to the community that has supported me I am
making available a package, named montisite, that I have been working on 
whilst learning how to use Zope 3. I think it might be helpful to other 
newcomers who need examples just to take apart to see how they work. To 
that end I intend to provide more and better documentation to help other 
newcomers. The current version is functional but a bit rough inside. I 
have to go away for a few days so it will have to do for now. You can 
get the package and see example screen grabs at:

http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/ceford/zope3/

montisite is effectively a skin designed for ease of use by content
providers with little knowledge of web page composition. However, there
are also some features of interest to more advanced users:

1. An edit dialog with buttons to help compose image and link tags, 
amongst others.

2. A menu dialog that allows users to control content and order of menu 
items.

3. Dialogs that collect name and metadata for new objects from a single 
form.

4. Dialogs to cascade stylesheets through parent folders.

5. Similarly, although not cascaded, for Javascript.

6. A dialog to simplify allocation of roles to users selected from a
relational database.

I know I have done some things wrong, like use a content object to store 
information that ought to have gone into annotations, and my macros are 
not best organised - but that is what happens when you are learning to 
use new tools. I would appreciate any comments on the potential value of 
the montisite package - should I develop it or bin it?

Cliff Ford