The scenario in this tutorial involves the creation of a website for ZAcme, Incorporated . Stan has been appointed the task of creating the public website for ZAcme, Incorporated to give the public online information on its products, research, and news. Stan is also busy as head of the Products department and does not want to presume anything about the Research and Public Relations (PR) departments, so he needs to delegate responsibility for content to the departments themselves. Yet, he also needs to make sure that the site looks and behaves similarly at all points, and some common, consistent information needs to be displayed on all pages. As the manager responsible for public information online, Stan needs to be able to make changes at any location.
Each department is responsible for its own content. Each department has varied groups and committees overseeing different areas of that department. Finally, each department requires individual control over who can be assigned privileges to add and manage contents in their subareas.
Stan has already installed Zope. He created a folder named ZAcme under his root installation. The public interface and users folders options will not be used at present. (Make sure you turn off the "Create Public Interface" and "User folder" options when you create this sample folder.)
Stan will create the basic elements that the site will be built on: documents, images, and folders. Since a skeleton site needs to be seen by others quickly, Stan gives only enough to show what will be coming.
Right away, Stan organizes some of the basic content that all of the sites will be able to use. He also gives access to the PR and Research departments for their respective folders. So follow along as we do the following with Stan:
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