Zope Technical Solutions

Zope Technical Solutions gives participants a comprehensive overview of Zope software from rudimentary through advanced topics. You will gain an appreciation of the flexibility and effectiveness of Zope as an Open Source web development and content management environment. You will learn Zope architecture and perform hands-on exercises using Zope to develop and manage a robust web site.

Course Will Demonstrate:

• Zope's built-in objects and method.
• Zope's through the Web management interface.
• Zope's presentation technology, Page Templates.
• Web site content creation and management.
• Web site security through user privileges and roles.
• Form validation and processing.
• Dynamic web pages.
• Relational database integration.
• Searching and indexing.
• Scripting Zope.
• Increasing performance with caching.
• Zope's server-side scripting language (DTML).
• Zope's Content Management Framework (CMF).

Audience

The course is intended for anyone interested in using a full-featured open source environment to develop and manage a robust corporate internet or intranet web site. This includes web site designers, content creators, content managers and web developers. Participants should be familiar with HTML and basic web architecture (e.g., how a web server and web browser work together). Knowledge of object-oriented concepts and SQL is recommended.

Suggested Pre-Work

Download Zope 2.7 and take the built-in tutorial:
http://zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.0%20
Also recommended is the Python Tutorial:
http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html

Zope Corporation delivered a system that has really improved the way we manage our web content. They worked with us to customize Zope to meet our special needs to publish, given a tiered development platform and a unique network environment. We're using their Zope Replication Server (ZRS) product to ensure the timely controlled migration of data to our production servers.
- Beth Mazur, Manager of Web Development, AARP