Coffee, Conversation And ZUBB (
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Want to add a little interactivity to your Zope portal? Take a look at ZUBB,
the modestly-named Zope Ultimate Bulletin Board.One of the nicest things about online portals is the amount of user interactivity
they offer via their discussion boards and online chat rooms. A prime example
of this is Slashdot (
http://www.slashdot.com/), which has hundreds of comments on every new topic or article posted on the
site; reading them is always an entertaining experience, and they add a wonderful
sense of community to the site.
Why am I bringing this up? Because I've been playing with Zope a lot lately,
and one of my recent projects involved building a Zope-based portal which included
a discussion forum.
At first, I thought that I would have to design and build this forum myself from
scratch - until a search on Google and Zope.org turned up a very neat little Zope
Product named ZUBB, which offered all the features I needed. Installation was
a snap, the package was stable, full-featured, and easy to customize, and - best
of all - it worked like a charm, allowing me to add Slashdot-type discussion boards
easily and transparently to my Zope-based site.
If this is something you've always wanted to do, but never known where to begin,
this is your lucky day - over the next few pages, I'm going to guide you through
the process of installing, using and customizing ZUBB on your Zope portal. Keep
reading!
