[Tutor] [opinions?] Web development... (kind of long)

[Andrei Kulakov]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:53:17PM -0700, Israel Evans wrote:
> Hello everyone...
> 
> 
> I'm in a bit of a quandry.  I have a number of websites that I'm working on,
> mostly personal non professional jobs, but a few of them need to be of that
> caliber.  I am very interested in using Python to automate a lot of the
> creation of individual pages and taking care of the tedious task of updating
> a frequently updated site.  I've looked at a number of options, but none of
> them have filled me with glee as of yet.  I'm calling out to this wonderful
> list to see if any of you with web development experience have any
> resounding opinions on the web publishing options available to us
> pythonistas(or fledgling pythonistas as the case may be).
> 
> I've looked at Zope but it seems to be a very greedy paradigm.  Everything
> must be fed to the great Zope management interface, registered, methodized
> and otherwise recreated.  It feels as if I'm no longer following the
> standards of the w3c and creating html, xhtml, xml and so on.
> 
> I was hoping Webware would be a more relaxed lightweight alternative, but I
> was having trouble getting everything working.  This may have to wait until
> I upgrade my pc later this year.
> 
> Python Server Pages sounds great, but it's a Java/Jython thing and I just
> seem to have this prejudice against using java when I have Python.  I know
> it's not the same thing. I know I'm actually writing in Python and the Java
> part only comes in as the final form of the code in much the same way that C
> Python  ends up being C somewhere down the line.
> 
>   My goals are as follows;  
> I'd like to create a number of templates for the look and feel for all pages
> in a site.  
> I'd like to create a number of ways the site would be updated automatically
> whenever new content is added to either a database or the directories of
> which the site is made of.  
> It would be great if I could do this on the client, but the Server Side is
> nice as well.
> I'd like the content to be dynamically loaded in as it is requested by the
> user.  
> 
> I come from a land of strict XHTML couple with CSS and Javascript.  I'm only
> now getting into the crazy world of Server Side web applications, persistent
> data, and python programming.  I'd like to create documents that adhere to
> the standards of XHTML, XML and so on and still have something like server
> side includes to carry out the programming parts of things.  I'd also like
> to at least have those documents remain inviolated by the code.  The Code
> should be able to grab what files it needs, do the things it is supposed to
> do and publish it as standards compliant documents.  It just creeps me out
> to have things mingle too much.
> 
> Anyway.. Sorry about the rambling.  I know there are many folks out there
> with much more experience than I and I hope to hear from these kind and
> knowing souls to help me resolve my quandry.
> 
> Thanks a bunch,
> 
> ~Israel~

What about PMZ, poor man's zope? I didn't use it myself but it might be good.

Then again, you can just write a bunch of cgi scripts..
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