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 with the current site is that not enough people
have access to update it. Since I love python, these seemed like
viable solutions.
1) Is Zope/Plone overkill for this type of project?
2) Why use Plone vs. straight up Zope?
3) Is there a way to get over the steep learning curves (that I have
read about)?
Feb 21 '06
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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 focus on the
coding. I am hoping that we could build an extension or two using
python (if needed), and I would like to completely redesign the main
"skin," but other than that I need the CMS tool so Plone looks like a
great fit.
I tried installing Zope last night, but when I did, I couldn't find out
how to even start it for about an hour after searching. I was worried
that if I went the Plone/Zope route, then I would need to know both.
It looks like Plone just makes Zope much easier to work with.
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 for a wiki.
Don't overlook this solution. A wiki can be made good-looking, and you
just can't beat it when it comes to ease of use for non-technical
persons (and for technical persons too...). Modern wikis like MoinMoin
or the Wiki part of Trac are also very extensibles.
For the record, for our own extranet, we're actually switching from CPS
(a very-close-to-Plone CMF) to... Trac - there's not even a subversion
repository around, but we use the Wiki/Ticket/Roadmap combo to manage
our current projects.
Now Plone is a pretty good CMS for Portal-like sites, so it may be what
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