Welcome to Zope, the premier dynamic platform for servicing content managers.
These are people that know tools like HTML editors, Windows Explorer, and Word. They now want to migrate up to more powerful web functionality or participate in a more powerful system.
Zope is a powerful system for dynamic content delivery. It provides:
The purpose of this document is to aid the content manager in utilizing the Zope application. Since learning is facilitated by action, this guide provides a tutorial format for the content manager to become familiar with Zope web application.
The guide starts with a tutorial to show the dynamics of the Zope product. Using the Zope product, the user is guided through design and implementation of a site. The tasks of creating folders, incorporating images (company logo's), and incorporating Document Template Markup Language (DTML) methods into web pages are explored.
This guide addresses the aspects of security, managing roles and managing users. Step by step screens descriptions show the content manager how to allow access to various users and assigning them security roles. Manager roles allows the content manager to assign trusted staff members the responsibility to managing a Zope website or a portion of the website, while the anonymous roles gives the members public access to the website. Netscape Publishing instructions are included in this manual.
The Control Panel of Zope allows the content manager the place to shutdown the Zope application, product management and database management. This guide, also, shows how to use the created application object as a template for creating new applications and turning an application into a Zope product.
This guide provide the content manager with a building blocks for using Zope to create web applications.
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