Subject: Re: portal server/CMS system
From: Anthony Valentine (amv@akvalentine.com)
Date: Fri Nov 07 2003 - 08:22:04 AKST
I am using zope (with plone) for my home website, www.akvalentine.com, and
I am considering using it for a corporate intranet.
Doing basic things, like uploading documents, writing news articles, etc
is very easy with zope. There are lots of add-on packages, what the zope
community calls products, that you can download and install very easily.
The photo album product I'm using on my site is a good example.
I am finding that so long as someone has a product that does what I want,
I am good to go, but making code modifications is proving to be difficult.
I am having trouble with the documentation. Since I am using plone on top
of CMF on top of zope which uses python and dtml, when I have a problem or
question, I never know which set of documentation to read. I usually end
up finding the soloution using google. This may change with the next
version of zope which, I hear, is integrating the CMF.
Metadot (appears) to be based on perl, while zope is based on python, so
if you already know one of them. . .
I was not aware of metatdot until I read your message, but now I am going
to install it and play. I know perl MUCH better than python, so I may
find it easier to use.
Don't get me wrong, zope is great. My home site was very easy to set up
and I am quite happy with it. Just be prepared to learn a lot if you want
to modify it too much.
Hope this helps.
Anthony Valentine
> Sometime in June, Joshua was asking about a good CMS system.
> He came across Metadot which seems really nice. www.metadot.com
>
> I just found out about zope. www.zope.org
>
> Has anyone used it? Comments?
>
> The thing I really like is that it has been packaged for Debian.
> And their mailing list seems very active.
>
> I want a CMS/Portal server system to install for clients
> and am looking for the right one. The most important
> feature being ease of use. Metadot "appears" to be more
> user friendly. Zope "appears" to be way more customizable
> and flexible, but much harder to learn.
>
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>
> Andy
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