[Zope] Zope Portal Toolkit

[Jimmie Houchin]

Great job DC. :)

Got this press release this morning.

Jimmie Houchin


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Digital Creations Introduces Zope Portal Toolkit Toolkit provides 
news, search and directory services for the Zope 2.0 Application 
Server


FREDERICKSBERG, Va. -- May 20, 1999 --  Digital Creations, a 
Virginia-based company providing consulting services for Web business 
applications, today announced the release of its Zope Portal Toolkit, 
a service facility that extends the power of the company's Zope 2.0. 
Zope is a free, Open Source Web application platform used to build, 
deploy and manage dynamic, high-performance Web sites.

The Zope Portal Toolkit provides news, search, directory and 
membership services that interact with Zope 2.0's built-in and 
extended capabilities. Zope 2.0 is a second-generation application 
server for Web site development and content management, providing a 
high performance index for fielded- and full-text searches, "news" 
and hierarchical views. The Toolkit also supports powerful 
membership-based customization and presentation features.

"The Zope Portal Toolkit extends Zope 2.0's ability to 'unleash the 
potential' of truly collaborative Web-driven communications," says 
Paul Everitt, CEO for Digital Creations. "This Toolkit gives 
developers and content managers an out-of-the-box meansóas well as a 
customizable environmentóto create and deploy dynamic, content-rich 
Internet presentations."

As a true Open Source solution, Zope is available free of charge and 
comes with comprehensive source code and a powerful array of 
application development tools and utilities. Zope 2.0 measurably 
improves the scalability and collaborative features of the original 
Zope Web application platform.

The Toolkit's membership system utilizes user identification, roles 
and permission controls to support portal structures that are at once 
secure and open. Zope's Portal Toolkit allows managers to admit new 
members, establish or change member profiles, and provide access to 
membership-driven content.

Zope 2.0's Portal Toolkit creates a Catalog that contains a high- 
performance index used to support powerful search and browse 
capabilities. Searches can be conducted by date or time, rich text or 
full text, or to display new content updated since the member's most 
recent visit.

Zope's directory allows managers and users to create categories and 
subcategories, and to navigate this dynamic information landscape via 
the Toolkit's catalog index. Nodes within the directory can be used 
to store unique HTML presentations, graphics or other content. The 
Zope Portal Toolkit also includes a framework wrapper used to 
integrate non-Web content from incoming email, databases or other 
sources.


About Digital Creations
Founded in Fredericksburg, Va. in 1995, Digital Creations is an 
established leader in Web technology, connecting business 
applications to the online world. As the publisher of Zopeóa free, 
Open Source Web application platform used for building high- 
performance, dynamic Web sitesóthe companyís product architecture and 
services have been used in high-end solutions for newspaper, 
government and Web businesses. Since Zopeís launch in November 1998, 
the Zope Community has grown to more than 500 members. For more 
information, call Paul Everitt at 540.371.6909, email 
paul@digicool.com, or visit the Web site at http://www.zope.org/

Contact:
Lindsey Seabaugh
Digital Creations Media Relations
Springbok Technologies
972.480.9980, x71
seabaugh@springbok.com

Paul Everitt
CEO
Digital Creations
540.371.6960, x102
paul@digicool.com

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