Tim,
Randolph told me about zope, and I've tried it. It is a very smart web-site
design tool, that helps you create and keep track of all your menus and links
in an organized manner. You can add little pieces of code to do special
things where you need it. It's object-oriented and based on a python
platform.
The version I tried (last year) was a bit buggy, and I got frustrated with
it because I felt too insulated from the resultant html/javascript code it
produced. There are definitely some advantages to zope, though--it's designed
from the ground-up to be a container that includes everything on your website.
And because it uses python, it's quite powerful and extensible.
I'd tend to agree with the FAQ item describing zope:
>if you desire to create dynamic sites that are capable of
>interfacing with a databases (either Zope's own object database or external
>databases such as MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, PostgreSQL, etc.), then Zope
>provides some powerful tools.
>
>Zope is really a web application builder, rather than a webpage builder. You
>have some incredible programming power that does not come with many other
>interfaces. But with Zope's power comes a pretty steep learning curve. So be
>warned up front that to do anything significant will take a bit of study
>time spent going through the documentation on the Zope site.
Ralph
At 12:19 PM 8/7/00 -0700, Timothy Bolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Has anyone used zope. It's a web content manager. I checked out some of the
>web sites powered by zope and they loaded up fast. From what I've
>read it's based on Python with C optimizations. Tucows has it as one of their
>top picks for this month.
>http://www.zope.org/
>I'd like to hear form someone who actually used it.
>
>Tim
>
