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The arrangement of Zope objects required for a large website can get somewhat messy and end up looking disorganized. Fortunately, you can use the plethora of Zope Products available to give you a hand, or you can create your own, if there are none that perfectly suit your needs. This article shows you how easy it is to create a Zope Product.

Plone is an excellent content management system. You will probably find everything you need in the system itself, or from third party content types. If you don't, however, it is very easy to create your own content types, as this article will explain.

Many applications are surprisingly easy to create in Zope. This article will teach you how to create a simple user database using Zope objects for data storage.

While some people immediately understand the usefulness of Zope, others don't understand how to apply their skills. In this article, Peyton McCullough explains how to apply the skills to create a simple forum.

Due to the increased complexity of Web applications, programmers have hit the limit of what can be done with CGI. Zope provides the basic services provided by CGI, such as allowing users to log on to e-commerce web sites and community portals in order to receive personalized content, all while making software development easier. In this article, I will cover what Zope is, how you install it on a Linux or UNIX system, and explain a few of the concepts you'll need to understand in order to be able to be productive with it.

In this concluding article, get up close and personal with METAL, the macro language that allows you to add reusability to your Zope templates.

Now that you've got the skinny on variables and conditional statements, expand your knowledge of the ZPT universe with this discussion of TAL loops, dynamically-generated attributes and error handlers.

Dig deeper into the world of ZPT with examples andillustrations of how to create, manipulate and use variables andconditional tests in your templates.

Contrary to what you might think, DTML isn't the only programming language available to you in Zope. Take a look at Zope Page Templates (ZPT), a template-based alternative that makes it easier for designers and developers to collaborate on Zope application development.

Ever wondered if there was a way to stop Zope from barfing error messages all over your screen when one of your scripts crashes and burns? Well, guess what - there is! Meet the and tags, which can be used to trap and resolve errors in script execution.

In this concluding article, dip your toes in the waters of more advanced DTML programming, with explanations of the , and tags.

Last time out, DTML Basics demonstrated conditional statements. This time around, it's time to study loops...which, in the DTML world, aren't exactly what you're used to. Take a look.

In this second article, dive a little deeper into theintricacies of DTML by getting up close and personal with conditionalstatements and comparison operators. This article discusses thedifferent variants of the "if" statement available in DTML, togetherwith examples and code listings that demonstrate how they can be used ina Web applications.

Always wanted to learn DTML, but didn't know where to start? Today's your lucky day.

So you've got your Apache server serving up static HTMLcontent, and you've got some cool new Zope applications as well. Now, incase you were wondering, it is possible for the twain to meet - and thisarticle tells you how, with a step-by-step guide to the process ofserving up your Zope content through Apache.