Interesting - because I fit exactly that. Each proposal that goes out has pricing for different administrative features - but my niche client typically pay me to do the updates while throwing more of the bulk of their budget into client features. I don't know if I am the only one dabbling in the $2000 to $10,000 website job range -but I have to believe that there are others like me that need light - quick and dirty solutions like these for some of their clients who decide not to invest in that extra admin form.
jason Matt Liotta wrote: I actually doubt many people on this list fit that description. It has been years since I was involved in a web application that didn't have some kind of interface to allow for content editing by non-technical folk. Matt Liotta President & CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.montarasoftware.com/ <http://www.montarasoftware.com/> 888-408-0900 x901 -----Original Message----- From: Jesse Noller [ mailto:jnoller@;macromedia.com <mailto:jnoller@;macromedia.com> ] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 3:39 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Contribute and Studio Observation The Point of Contribute is to not "deprecate" the programmer/designer. The point is to allow PHBs to quickly edit things like "company contact information" or "news of the day" or "what's for lunch", primarily simple, doc-like sections of the website. How many of us have sat there twiddling our thumbs waiting for a PHB to email us the text for something as simple as "company description"... Or, as simple as "item description". Me? I'd rather not have to burn 800 hours hitting refresh on my mail client while I wait for a paragraph of text to be added by some middle manager who had to hack it out through a legal department. Jesse Noller Macromedia Server Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:jnoller@;macromedia.com> -----Original Message----- From: Robert Polickoski [ mailto:rpolickoski@;isrd.com <mailto:rpolickoski@;isrd.com> ] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 2:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Contribute and Studio Observation Not that I am trying to be exclusive or pompous, but when you start allowing people who know nothing about web page design or development to design or develop web pages, you get web pages designed or developed by people who know nothing about the process. I think it is a dangerous trend to try to make all technology available to everyone. As a case and point: The professional secreatry is all but dead. Because the word processor is now available to everyone, everyone is expected to use it. Therefore, you now have middle executive types spending twice as long to develop documents at 3 times the cost with 1/2 the effectiveness because they really don't know how to write. Specialization is not always a bad thing. Is it so horrible to expect that if someone wants to use a technology, they actually learn how to use it. Just my $0.02. Robert J. Polickoski Senior Programmer, ISRD Inc. (540) 842-6339 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:rpolickoski@;isrd.com> AIM - RobertJFP ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: S. Isaac Dealey <mailto:info@;turnkey.to> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:cf-talk@;houseoffusion.com> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:19:57 -0500 At the risk of being a trouble maker, I just have to make this observation. Now that we are allowed to talk about Contribute, I have to say the following: We have been told that MM is doing away with Studio/Homesite because they do not want to have more than one editing application in their application portfolio. I accepted this despite Dreamweaver's obvious issues that have already been covered to death. So what is the next application that MM releases? Another web editing application. I might be the only one that is irked by this, or maybe not, but it seems very odd to me. I wouldn't say that this new tool is in any way a replacement for CF Studio . It's a web-based tool to allow non-technical ( or less- technical ) users to edit web content... So... it really in no way compares to Studio. What they're after is the wider audience of general, non-programmer business users, which is an entirely different market than Studio targeted. So I don't think it really relates (at least not directly) to their saying they didn't want to support more than one _traditional_ editing application. You wouldn't buy Contribute for the folks in your office currently using either CF Studio or Dreamweaver -- you'd buy Contribute for the folks in your office currently sending email to the folks using CF Studio or Dreamweaver to ask them to make changes. S. Isaac Dealey Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer www.turnkey.to <http://www.turnkey.to> 954-776-0046 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
