Zope Tools For You

ZTFY is a set of Python packages, availables as eggs, used to handle content management on a web site (like this one) via a Zope 3 environment.

ZTFY packages are made to be simple to use, and only provide voluntarily a small set of features; but these ones are also made to be:

• extensibles, by adding new components
• customizable, notably by creating new presentation skins based on default skin overriding.

Features actually provided by ZTFY packages include:

• handling of site folders tree, based on sections definition
• handling of an illustrated blog
• topics publication, using a simplified workflow
• multilingual support
• access rights management
• handling of Google AdSense and Google Analytics services
• a default skin.

Some extension packages are already available:

• ztfy.gallery, which allows inclusion of images inside articles
• ztfy.scheduler, which is used to schedule administration tasks
• ztfy.zmi, which is used to access 'standard' ZMI functions throught a custom skin.

Next developments should concern:

• an issue tracker
• wiki handling
• forums.

All packages are available on Pypi, or as source code in the Mercurial repository. A ReviewBoard instance is also available, you can use it to send your enhancements proposals.

This site is done to go beyond "simple" documentation already available for most packages (sometimes lightly) through doctests, by giving complete examples of ZTFY packages usage and their integration with standard Zope3 packages. You will also find here some news related to ZTFY packages, as well as informations related to Python and Zope.

Note: you may notice that this site is mainly (and at first) written in french, and translated afterwards to english (when I have enough time for that...). Please just keep in mind that all these developments are made on my spare time and that I do as much as I can ;-)