CompoundDoc

Web Media Engineering is proud to add CompoundDoc to the ever growing pool of OpenSource programming available world wide.

CompoundDoc is available free to use and distribute and is licensed under the GPL. This website has a developer support section for other Zope developers who use it.

What CompoundDoc Does

We explained that Zope as an application server is analogous to a restaurant waiter serving dinner meals. CompoundDoc is like the tray that he carries. He can put anything on it that he needs to complete his job.

CompoundDoc is technically an object, compound container. In plan language this means it holds the text, pictures and all other content of a website. It protects the content from corruption and uses its fall-back abilities to render the page even if the new version has an error. It can detect the requesting web browser and operating system and give back a version of the page made just for that request. It can transparently read data from other CompoundDocs in the database making ecommerce and other applications far easier to build. It can automatically import data from text files to build and populate whole websites at once. It has image filters that convert images to a web ready format and re-size them for correct display.

In short, it is the Swiss army knife of website design. It speeds what we do so we can quickly prototype your website. You can see it working and we can then rebuild it to be just what you want.

Has it taken a long time to build...yes. Are we continuing to improve it...again, yes. It is our plan to be able to give it a color and a logo and a text file of content and CompoundDoc will actually build a website on its own. Did I say we are highly motivated toward automation? As unbelievable as this dream sounds, we are closer to it than you might think.