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Interviews:   Interview with Alan Runyan by: ZopeMag Staff In this Issue we chat with Alan Runyan of the Plone Team. We asked him about the future of Plone and Archetypes. Articles:   Introduction to Archetypes by: Sidnei da Silva Archetypes (formerly known as CMFTypes) is a framework designed to ease the building of applications for Plone and CMF. It's main intention is to provide a common way to build content objects, based on schema definitions. This introductory article is the first in a series of articles about Schemas ZopeMag is publishing.  Customized User Folders Revisited by: Kristoph Kirchner A short while ago, a ZopeMag reader suggested a continuation of the 'Customized UserFolder' series by showing how writing your own UserFolder can help you provide user-specific content. This article gives some examples, e.g. how to send mails containing News compilations to users who have accepted to receive mails.   Plone Workflows by: Milos Prudek Workflow is both a buzzword and a useful concept. Efforts to tame and harness organization workflow are one of the chief reasons to try content management systems. Plone is particularly suitable for this task, especially because it offers a workflow out of the box. However, Plone newbies often grow frustrated when trying to customize Plone to their needs. In this article we investigate possible ways to build custom Plone-based workflow, using simple but nutritious examples.   Enriching Zope UIs With XML by: Paul Everitt Sophisticated web interfaces, such as content management tools, place extra demands on usability. Demands are also increased on server performance. In this article we look at increasing usability and serve performance by moving interaction from the server to the browser through XML and XSLT. This hands-on tutorial will show how an XML interface can be built for Zope that runs in IE and Mozilla, with discussion on the impact this technique can have on the development process itself.

Guides: miniGuide to Importing an Existing Website into Zope K. Kirchner This MiniGuide is meant for Zope beginners who need to import an existing HTML-based Website into Zope. It will show different ways of moving a Website to Zope, such as LocalFS, StreamingFS, FTP, WebDAV, FSImport, Ape, HTTPMouter, either by importing the content into the ZODB (Zope Object Database) or by keeping it in the file system. SuperGuide for Zope Newbies (Section I of III) by: Pratt, Kirchner, Germain The first section of a roughly 60 page SuperGuide designed for Zope Newbies. Covers community, business and technical issues relating to Zope. Product Reviews: Formulator by: Samuel Sotillo This product review evaluates Formulator, a tool used to create and evaluate web forms. Formulator offers functionality for defining the fields in the form and validating the data either manually or automatically. Formulator provides only a basic layout and most complex layouts are left to the developer. Formulator validates all fields and deals with all validation errors. Also, it handles data processing when necessary. Formulator can be used with both DTML methods or Zope Page Templates. ZStyleSheets by: Samuel Sotillo The use of CSS with Zope has many possible solutions. For instance, the popular Zope Content Management Framework (CMF) uses style sheets extensively. However, CMF does not showe its CSS code explicitly—therefore, users need first to understand how CMF works before they can understand how to handle its style information. A product that allows the explicit handling of CSS information is ZStyleSheet. This article will briefly review how ZStyleSheet can help our readers to create stylish layouts for their projects.