On Monday, Nov 11, 2002, at 12:44 US/Pacific, Sandy Clark wrote: > My initial feel from looking at the stuff is this is going to be mostly > meant for smaller sites that use Dreamweaver MX to setup the template > editing areas with defined static areas for Contribute users to modify > and hands off all other aspects including dynamic code.
And for large HTML sites where there are a large number of contributors (potentially of a non-technical nature). Example: a company with a large (static) intranet. Contribute allows them to empower end users to update their own content on the intranet, helping keep it up to date. If you already have a dynamic site, the chances are that it has a content administration system already. Contribute is not intended to displace such systems. I set up my wife's website with Dreamweaver. Like many simple sites, it's plain HTML. She's always asking me to change stuff for her. I will buy her Contribute and she can update it herself in future. Makes me happy. At work, we have a 'microsite' on the intranet for each team. Those microsites are static HTML. So we put Contribute on everyone's desktop and now everyone can update their own content on their team's site. Result: team sites are more up to date and the look'n'feel stays consistent (controlled by the intranet web team). Yes, a dynamic CMS could also make managing our intranet easier but it would cost more to build / buy / maintain than simply buying a site license of Contribute. We already have a large static intranet - it would cost time and money to migrate all that content into a CMS. If we were starting out fresh, or were not so worried about migrating legacy content, then perhaps a CMS would be more attractive. I'm just trying to make the point that Contribute can - and will - coexist peacefully alongside dynamic web applications. Contribute is not really aimed at 'us' (ColdFusion developers) or even at our clients - it's aimed at the vast market full of people who still have static websites (or mostly static websites). Contribute will probably make very little difference to the life of most ColdFusion developers - but we are a fairly small proportion of the world-wide web community. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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
