Zope

Application Framework, Object Database and Web Server

We have standardized our website designs on the Zope (Z Object Publishing Environment) design and server technology. It was OpenSourced in 1998 by its developers, Digital Creations (now Zope Corp.), and has grown world wide since.

Here is Zope Corp.'s explanation:
"Zope is the award-winning open source platform for building content management systems. Zope's worldwide developer community numbers in the thousands and contributes to the software's continuing success.

"Zope Corporation has developed a superior approach to content management software and services, delivering the most flexible solution based on an open source platform. With Zope software, customers can quickly create, manage, and distribute their content."

Here are a list of Zope related sites:

Security is the watch-word with Zope. It is so secure that NATO uses it for their worldwide intranet.

The biggest complaint we received from our members was that they couldn't find anything on the [ old] BARA Website. There were limitations to the searching function and it just took too long to hunt down information. Furthermore, we simply outgrew our menu items and functionality.

Web Media Engineering offered the best vision for the BARA's Website functionality and capability, and the company's technology was more advanced than what we could find elsewhere.

But what impressed us the most was when the Web Media Engineering team came to the final selection meeting and unveiled a nearly completed, functioning Website for BARA. We were amazed at their speed and timeliness to put together the test site in just a few days. We knew then this was the company we wanted to do business with.

Mike Scott
Website committee chair for BARA's Board of Directors