Tutorial

This tutorial describes the use of Zulu for the edition and generation of Web sites. It is composed of following components:

Das Tutorial zeigt, wie eine Zulu-Website installiert wird. Dabei werden verschiedene Mechanismen erklärt. Das Tutorial ist in vier verschiedene Teile aufgeteilt:

• For the dummies:
  Installieren / Assemblieren / Betrachten einer minimalen Zulu-Web-Site
  
  
• Experimentieren I:
  Bestehende Seiten verändern / Menu-Einträge verändern / Neue Seiten und Menu-Einträge einfügen
  
  
• Experimentieren II:
  Für Fortgeschrittene: ändern des (Style-)Templates
  
  
• Tools um weiter zu kommen:
  Uploaden der Site (FTP, HttpUpload, wxHttpUpload, Mapped Network Drive), Alpuma (Fotoalben erstellen)
  
  
• Mehr-sprachiges oder Multi-lingual Zulu:
  Zulu unterstützt auch für viel-sprachige Sites: die Zahl der Sprachen kann den Bedürfnissen angepasst, das heisst vergrössert oder verkleinert werden - muss aber mindestens eins betragen(...).
  
  
• Zulu @ Mac OS X / Excel:
  Wie funktioniert Zulu auf Mac OS X mit Excel ?
  
  
• Zulu & OpenOffice:
  Wie funktioniert Zulu mit OpenOffice ?
  To be completed.
  
  
• Zulu @ Linux:
  Kann Zulu auf Linux portiert werden ?
  OpenOffice Basic sollte sicherlich portabel sein ...
  
  

Installing / Assembling / Viewing

• Installation:
  Download zulu_2003-03-15a_v2.0.0.zip and unpack it. You may found the download page here.
• Delete generated pages:
  Search in the Zulu-directory for all files with names matching *.html and which contain the text DON'T EDIT. Delete them.
• Install Python. How to install Python is described here.
• Assembling:
  Open the Excel-file zulu_templates\current\zulu_structure.xls. Then click the button labelled 'Zulu'. By clicking the link zulu_errorlog.html (located in line 6 of the Excel-file) the error output may be consulted. The error output should not contain any orange or red lines.
• Viewing:
  By clicking the link ..\index.html on line 5 of the Excel-file the new assembled website is opened in a browser.

Consider the advantages of Zulu:
The installation is simple and Zulu requires no extra tools.
The website can be viewed on a local computer.
Several version of a Zulu-website may exist. They can be maintained at the same time.

Switching layouts

The layout of the website can be easily changed by choosing from a template in the 'Template:' line in the Excel-file.

In order to view the website with its new layout you must reassemble it by clicking the Zulu-button and reload the page in your browser.

Consider the advantages of Zulu:
The layout is separated from the content.