At 11:09 AM 11/11/2, Robert Polickoski wrote: > 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.
I'd go along with that. Early computer users had to build their own machines. Now many more people can get up and productive more easily and economically. They don't have to worry about driver interrupts or TSRs. I see a parallel with Contribute -- you can control what they can edit, and then get out of their way. At 11:54 AM 11/11/2, David Notik wrote: > Contribute seems to allow you to lock down everything, including > fonts and styles, and just allow actual text content editing. So > unless you make a living cutting and pasting text changes a client > sends you, I wouldn't be too worried. The site, the code, and the > initial content creation are all done by you, the developer/designer. Right on, thanks. > Plus, I'd bet that the fact that the client can edit the pages will > excite him, and keep him occupied with the site, and keep them > coming back to you for additions/modifications/answers. That seems plausible to me too, and is the type of thing I've been wondering about... what social changes will we see with this new technology? I guess only time will tell, but I'm keen on such speculation now, thanks in advance. At 12:38 PM 11/11/2, Sandy Clark wrote: > I don't think there is any way to market this as a content management > system. More like a "Edit your own damn text, the programmer has > coding to do" type of system. mmmm, I can see the T-shirt now.... ;-) jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://jdmx.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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
