[Zope] Newbie understanding of objects.

[Douglas Carnall]

Russell,

As a newbie I liked your piece. It's hard to write simply, and you have a
good style. The examples given in the Zope book illustrating "objects"
relate to a spaceship; I like the fact that yours is more relevant to real
life website design. As for whether it is technically correct and
sufficient, I will have to leave that to others, but I hope you will find
encouragement and constructive criticism from other reviewers. Keep going!

D.

> What is an object? In the zope tutorial, an object was created for an email
> address. This object was the address itself (myname@zope.org). You create the
> object so that you only have to enter a few letters or words to get what you
> want, rather than having to write the whole thing out. The email address is
> really site contact information. If you have 10 pages that you want to have
> the same contact information, you want it all to go to the maintainer of a
> particular section of your site, you can create an object for this purpose.
> Our site contact object is composed of two properties. One is the actual email
> address. The other is what you want the object's name to be. The "Name" part
> is what you are calling the object. This is the part that goes with the
> <dtml-var> tag. The "Value" part is what will actually show. In this case
> "Value" is the email address itself. So if I choose webmaster as the "Name"
> part, whenever I type <dtml-var webmaster>, the html that people will see
> shows myname@zope.org. Okay, I haven't saved any typing, you may think to
> yourself. If this little bit of of typing had to be done over 10 pages, or
> 100, then the power is clear. If the wemaster changes, then you only have to
> change the address of this person once.
> 

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