[Zope] Front door on the Zope web site (Was Re: [Zope] SmartWorker)

Wed, 27 Oct 1999 12:56:42 +0000 (GMT)

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Paul Everitt wrote:
> This is a very, very important thread to me.  I'm looking for two
> things:
> 
>   o What questions should the Zope.org home page, and pages 
>     one click away, answer?
> 
>   o What are some effective ways to answer those questions?

   Currently Zope.org oriented primarily toward Zope developers. If you
want to restructure the site to attract business eyes, I think the
following questions are important:

   Q1. Frontdoor: What is Zope, how it can improve your business, why
opensource platform better suites your needs.

   Q2. Frontdoor: What major players are already employed Zope.

   Q3. Frontdor: Zope news. Not developers news, but news in general: new
zope-powered sites, articles about Zope in Big Magazines, etc. Short. Also
additional page(s) with more details, and past news.

   Q4. Zope status:  How to download, how and what to buy, quality of
documentation, commercial products and support.

   Q5. Zope status: Latest and stable version, precompiled binaries for as
many platforms as possible (not only because it is good by itself, but to
attract managers and their developers).

   Q6. Developer resources: entry-level documentation ("I just downloaded
precompiled tarball; what next?"), deep documentation, HOWTOs, list of
available components.

   And some parts of answer for Q1:

Zope is free, open-source component-based
object-oriented Web application platform.

   Zope can improve your business by allowing you to develop your Web
applications easily, with rights tools. Zope is free, thus making your
applications cheaper. Zope is open-sourced, thus allowing your developers
to understand every aspect of its internals. Zope conforms to standards.
Zope talks HTTP/FTP/WebDAV/FastCGI/etc protocols.

Oleg.
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    Oleg Broytmann      Foundation for Effective Policies      phd@phd.russ.ru
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.