Digital Creations Introduces Zope Portal Toolkit Toolkit provides
news, search and directory services for the Zope 2.0 Application
Server
FREDERICKSBERG, Va. — May 20, 1999 — Digital Creations, a
Virginia-based company providing consulting services for Web business
applications, today announced the release of its Zope Portal Toolkit,
a service facility that extends the power of the company’s Zope 2.0.
Zope is a free, Open Source Web application platform used to build,
deploy and manage dynamic, high-performance Web sites.
The Zope Portal Toolkit provides news, search, directory and
membership services that interact with Zope 2.0’s built-in and
extended capabilities. Zope 2.0 is a second-generation application
server for Web site development and content management, providing a
high performance index for fielded- and full-text searches, “news”
and hierarchical views. The Toolkit also supports powerful
membership-based customization and presentation features.
“The Zope Portal Toolkit extends Zope 2.0’s ability to ‘unleash the
potential’ of truly collaborative Web-driven communications,” says
Paul Everitt, CEO for Digital Creations. “This Toolkit gives
developers and content managers an out-of-the-box meansas well as a
customizable environmentto create and deploy dynamic, content-rich
Internet presentations.”
As a true Open Source solution, Zope is available free of charge and
comes with comprehensive source code and a powerful array of
application development tools and utilities. Zope 2.0 measurably
improves the scalability and collaborative features of the original
Zope Web application platform.
The Toolkit’s membership system utilizes user identification, roles
and permission controls to support portal structures that are at once
secure and open. Zope’s Portal Toolkit allows managers to admit new
members, establish or change member profiles, and provide access to
membership-driven content.
Zope 2.0’s Portal Toolkit creates a Catalog that contains a high-
performance index used to support powerful search and browse
capabilities. Searches can be conducted by date or time, rich text or
full text, or to display new content updated since the member’s most
recent visit.
Zope’s directory allows managers and users to create categories and
subcategories, and to navigate this dynamic information landscape via
the Toolkit’s catalog index. Nodes within the directory can be used
to store unique HTML presentations, graphics or other content. The
Zope Portal Toolkit also includes a framework wrapper used to
integrate non-Web content from incoming email, databases or other
sources.
About Digital Creations
Founded in Fredericksburg, Va. in 1995, Digital Creations is an
established leader in Web technology, connecting business
applications to the online world. As the publisher of Zopea free,
Open Source Web application platform used for building high-
performance, dynamic Web sitesthe companys product architecture and
services have been used in high-end solutions for newspaper,
government and Web businesses. Since Zopes launch in November 1998,
the Zope Community has grown to more than 500 members. For more
information, call Paul Everitt at 540.371.6909, email
paul@digicool.com, or visit the Web site at http://www.zope.org/
Contact:
Lindsey Seabaugh
Digital Creations Media Relations
Springbok Technologies
972.480.9980, x71
seabaugh@springbok.com
Paul Everitt
CEO
Digital Creations
540.371.6960, x102
paul@digicool.com