Initially it will be $99.00 They call it stand-alone
They also say you can impose restrictions. if there are no server side components, then how does one do that? Do you have to buy it, customize it for each client, and then find some way to redistribute it to your clients, and if so, at what price? ===================================== Douglas White group Manager mailto:doug@;samcfug.org http://www.samcfug.org ===================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paris Lundis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 11:45 AM Subject: RE: OT? Macromedia Contribute, is it Content Management or not? | The product is pretty niche oriented from my end... | | seems ideal that they say it only allows folks to edit non code | portions.. hurrah if they manage to pull that portion off... | | seems to integrate nicely into dreamweaver... but hey, would non techy | people really find that friendly..nice for the know bunch though.. | | drag and drop is nifty... | | I would summarize it as a web-enabled version control system that has | nifty parsing to limit people to non technical portions... | | it really makes it seem brain dead... fine for samll edits, but hell I | use existing Active X invoked editors to do the same and version | control... the only thing it one ups me on is that limit them to non | technical portions... We do that too, but we do it by only having a | single content zone for them to edit per page and the editor only | displays that when editing.. so yeah, nice to see edit region within | context of entire document... | | What in the world is the pricing for this product? | | -paris | | Paris Lundis | Founder | Areaindex, L.L.C. | http://www.areaindex.com | http://www.pubcrawler.com | 412-292-3135 | [finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present] | [connecting people, places and things] | | | -----Original Message----- | From: "Wayne Putterill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:12:13 -0000 | Subject: RE: OT? Macromedia Contribute, is it Content Management or | not? | | > It does seem to be a very odd product, I can't really see what the | > market is for it. | > | > I can't see it being used on large sites (probably already CMS), and | > I | > think we all know how easy it is to put together a dynamic site with | > an | > admin area. | > | > Also what's the benefit of paying per seat for this and then being | > tied | > to a particular computer, when a dynamic or CMS site can be accessed | > via | > browser from anywhere by however many people you want? | > | > Puzzled.... | > | > | > > -----Original Message----- | > > From: Frank Mamone [mailto:fmamone@;videotron.ca] | > > Sent: 11 November 2002 16:49 | > > To: CF-Talk | > > Subject: Re: OT? Macromedia Contribute, is it Content | > > Management or not? | > > | > > | > > I was the presentation at Devcon. It's content management for | > > static page websites or the static portions of a site. It | > > uses DWMX templates where you can restrict editable regions | > > of the pages and create new pages based on those templates. | > > | > > | > > ----- Original Message ----- | > > From: "Pete Ruckelshaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 9:07 AM | > > Subject: OT? Macromedia Contribute, is it Content Management or | > not? | > > | > > | > > > Topic: Macromedia Contribute | > > > http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/contribute/ | > > > | > > > Poking around the site, it sure as heck looks like some sort of | > > > content | > > management system, but MACR seems to go to great pains to NOT | > > us the "Content Management" moniker. The Conspiracy Theorist | > > in me (a small voice who is constantly being repressed by the | > > man, man) think that this is solely so I can't get an upgrade | > > from Spectra. | > > > | > > > So, does anyone here know anything about it? Is it really | > content | > > management, or is it something that MACR is trying to define | > > themselves? | > > > | > > > Thanks | > > > | > > > Pete | > > > | > > > | > > | > | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
