Re: Zope/Plone - Is it the right solution?

2006-02-21 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
kbperry a écrit : > Well, > I guess our main goal in this class is to improve usability and user > experiences at the site. > > While we want to improve our site visually and make it more usable to > the prospective students, the site needs to be easily updated. I don't > think that I am looking

Re: Zope/Plone - Is it the right solution?

2006-02-21 Thread kbperry
Rene and Tim, Thanks for the help! I am glad that I didn't rule out Plone yet because I was able to download and install quickly. My "site" was up and running very quickly. For this class we are more focused on the HCI/usability stuff than we are the coding. I have plenty of other classes that

Re: Zope/Plone - Is it the right solution?

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Williams (gmail)
On 21 Feb 2006 08:00:03 -0800, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For easy of use nothing beats CherryPy, but I am not sure how stable itis. If CherryPy is of interest then don't discount Karrigell,  it has a smaller learning curve and appears stable.   Overall I found it quicker to becom

Re: Zope/Plone - Is it the right solution?

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Parkin
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > "kbperry" wrote: >>I am currently a student, and for our HCI class project we are >>redeveloping our CS website. I attend a very large university (around >>30,000 students), and the CS site will need to be updated by many >>people that don't have technical skills (like cleri

Re: Zope/Plone - Is it the right solution?

2006-02-21 Thread Rene Pijlman
kbperry: >1) Is Zope/Plone overkill for this type of project? No, Plone is an excellent CMS for your purpose. >2) Why use Plone vs. straight up Zope? Plone is an out-of-the-box CMS for non-technical editors, Zope is the underlying infrastructure for developers. >3) Is there a way to get over

Re: Zope/Plone - Is it the right solution?

2006-02-21 Thread Michele Simionato
It depends on how much time do you want to spend fighting with the framework. I usually do not recommend Zope, unless you want to make a career as a Zope consultant. If you have to interact with a relational database, your life with Zope may be hard: http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/?p=23 For easy of

Re: Zope/Plone - Is it the right solution?

2006-02-21 Thread Michele Simionato
Rene Pijlman wrote: > Get your data out of those silly rows and columns, and put it in > first-class objects! Well, there are pros and contras in the choice of a relational database vs an object database. Most of the time, there is no choice, since you have a legacy relation database to work with.

Re: Zope/Plone - Is it the right solution?

2006-02-21 Thread N.Davis
kbperry wrote: I attend a very large university (around > 30,000 students), and the CS site will need to be updated by many > people that don't have technical skills (like clerical staff). That is exactly the kind of thing Plone is good at. A good match I would say. Check out http://plone.org

Re: Zope/Plone - Is it the right solution?

2006-02-21 Thread Rene Pijlman
Michele Simionato: >I usually do not recommend Zope, unless you want to make a career as a >Zope consultant. You have a point there. >If you have to interact with a relational database, your life with Zope >may be hard: And if you have to interact with flat files, your life with an RDBMS may

Re: Zope/Plone - Is it the right solution?

2006-02-21 Thread kbperry
Well, I guess our main goal in this class is to improve usability and user experiences at the site. While we want to improve our site visually and make it more usable to the prospective students, the site needs to be easily updated. I don't think that I am looking for a wiki. I will definitely c

Re: Zope/Plone - Is it the right solution?

2006-02-21 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"kbperry" wrote: > I am currently a student, and for our HCI class project we are > redeveloping our CS website. I attend a very large university (around > 30,000 students), and the CS site will need to be updated by many > people that don't have technical skills (like clerical staff). > > The bi

Re: Zope/Plone - Is it the right solution?

2006-02-21 Thread Chris Lasher
You may want to look at either of the popular frameworks, TurboGears http://www.turbogears.org/ or Django http://www.djangoproject.com/ I have very little experience with both, but I decided to try learning the Django framework after watching the Snakes and Rubies videos. (See http://www.djangopro

Zope/Plone - Is it the right solution?

2006-02-21 Thread kbperry
Hi everyone, I am currently a student, and for our HCI class project we are redeveloping our CS website. I attend a very large university (around 30,000 students), and the CS site will need to be updated by many people that don't have technical skills (like clerical staff). The biggest problem wi