There’s still a lot of tweaking that I want to do, but I found Ron Grafe’s Bottom-Slide Info Box. I works nicely under both NS 4.x and Mozilla, so hopefully it won’t break anyone’s browser out there. Still ugly as sin, though. Gotta fix that.

Oh yeah … to see it in action, just let your mouse rest on one of the links in the main menu at the top of the page.

Technical decision here. I had to think about the CPU cycles on this old machine, and yer basic PHP + mySQL solution works pretty fast, and sucks up a bit less memory than Zope.

A few little tweaks to the site layout, nothing much. This time, though, I’ve made sure that all of the current content is being displayed via Zope Page Templates. Took a bit of work, but now I can move on to the really cool stuff.

Incidentally - I’m messing with CSS stuff for the next couple of days, so things might look a little funny. Don’t worry, I’ll be putting in browser checks so folks with older browsers won’t have to deal with visual funkiness.

Okay, the site is mostly converted to Zope Page Templates. There’s been a major reshuffling of pages to match the links on top of the page. Some of the more dynamic pages still need to be translated to ZPT, and I’ve got a few ideas for nifty Zope-ish things to improve the site. For now, though, let’s just get this stuff out to the world!

There’s a problem about being a Linux geek. When something breaks under Windows, you’re just as lost as the Windows guru would be under Redhat. Kinda sad, really. Had DSL problems which I still haven’t sorted out under Windows, but took me 5 minutes to fix in Linux. This machine is back to being dual-boot for the moment, until I can afford an extra box.

Part two of the Python tutorial is past the halfway point, but I am going to take a brain break while I explore what’s new in Zope 2.5. Meanwhile, does anybody know about a really awesome vector illustration program for Linux / Unix?

I’m having too much fun with Zope these days. In particular, I’ve come across the wonderful Python IDE Boa Constructor. It is still alpha quality (which roughly means you should be surprised if it works right every time), but this is the best free tool for Python development. It even has some nifty features for working with your Zope pages! If you’re feeling bold, I highly recommend you try it out.

I’m also finally working on part 2 of my Python tutorial, and I’d like to have that live by the end of the week.

Sorta figuring out Danny Yoo’s Code Colorizer. It’s a neat little package that produces colorized HTML markup out of your python code. Very handy to have in a Python tutorial. Danny mostly has it working for his Python Chalkboard, and was kind enough to dish up his current code - today, right after he was asked. Many thanks to him!