One of the goals during the development of Zamasing was to create a more powerful web 2.0 interface. Zamasing provides the power of a desktop application, with the important functions always within quick and easy reach.
In the classic Zope 2 ZMI, all action buttons such as copy, paste, delete or save are placed at the bottom of a page. In most cases, e.g. if the contents of a folder are displayed, those buttons are outside the visible area. The user is therefore forced to scroll down to invoke an action. This procedure becomes especially cumbersome if a large amount of copying, pasting and renaming operations is required.
Zamasing places all important action buttons at the top of the page, so that they are always visible. The screen is also split into two main sections: the explore pane on the left and the main content area on the right. This split pane is resizable. The explorer pane and the breadcrumbs bar offer different ways to navigate through the structure of the Zope application. See the section navigation for further details.