Hmm... True MM could have brought out a tool that generated CF pages where the text or graphic placement could be edited in a template by the end user...those pages would integrate with whatever custom code you as the developer wrote, and would be something you rolled out with your application. A developer could even up his price for it or offer it as a free 'feature'.
Contribute, on the other hand, is a pure End -User solution where a developer really isn't even needed. You get a web designer to do your initial site design templates and after that you can use Contribute until you think your site needs a facelift and get a new template built. Great for the end user....but I think to a certain extent it does cut out the developer. To mimic this functionality a developer would still have to either code the system,or invest in expensive third party products to enable end users of their applications to have the ability to make simple changes themselves. So how does Contribute really help the web application builder using Coldfusion to deliver solutions to clients? I tend to agree with those that say Contribute undercuts WABs. I would have preferred some sort of cheap content management tool that WABs could use to generate sites that had simple editing capabilities included in them. -Gel -----Original Message----- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Personally, my answer to that is an emphatic NO. Thats my job to build a system that my customers can use to do that. If Macromedia becomes an end-user solutions provider it undercuts my business. Contribute is fine as a generic and rather basic solution. It has a fine niche and, speaking for myself, I hope it stays there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
