With our Zope it is easy to handle the content of the pages of the web site. Authors don’t need any knowledge of web coding and work with the content in an interface similar to an ordinary word processing program. Zope shows the whole page with all the graphic elements included and in that way they get an idea of what the complete page will look like, while they are working on it.

Using Zope's visual Editor for a document

The document can be edited directly in the web browser, using the edit form. One thing to note is the highlighted edit tab at the top of the page. Messages appear at the top of this page, as shown below.

There are four fields for a document:

• Name: This identifier will become part of the document's web address. It should be short, descriptive and contain no underscores or mixed case. For example, "audit-report-2003". If you do not provide a name, Plone will create one for you.
• Title: This item will be shown at the top of the page, in the breadcrumbs, in the search interface, in the title of the browser and so on. This field is required.
• Description: This is a short lead in to the document - usually no more than 20 words - to introduce the document and provide a teaser for the remainder of the document.

Screenshot of our Open Science Zope Edition view window.

• Edition visual interface: This field contains the document.
  • Add text: To add text you click with the pointer at the place where you want to insert the text. Do you want to paste text from another document such as a Word document? It works

Screenshot of our Open Science Zope Visual Edition view window.

• Add image: To insert an image on the page. Place the pointer where you want the image to be. Choose the Image icon in the upper menu to open the Image dialog box.

Screenshot of our the Image dialog pop-up box.
 

• Add link: Mark the word or phrase you want to link. Click on the link icon and a link dialog box will appear. Use the link dialog to create internal and external links, e-mail links.

Screenshot of our the Link dialog pop-up box.