To be fair, I don't think he is the only one who's missing something, I have been looking at Contribute with a puzzled expression since I heard about it.
>From following this discussion it seems like its for: Companies who regularly need to make changes to their site but won't go to a CMS or cheap DB driven site, and have users who they trust to add unapproved content to the site, but don't trust to leave non-content areas of a page alone. Does that sum it up? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Watts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 5:13 AM Subject: RE: Got an opinion on MM Contribute? > > Users can do that with a free application such as Netscape > > Composer and many other HTML editors, also free. > > > > I could not imagine making my clients purchase an editor > > which would require me to give them a permission key from > > DreamweaverMX, when I can do that simple via folder permissions.. > > > > Maybe I am missing something here. > > I think you are missing something, if you don't mind me saying so. > > If you're working with a static site, and you want non-technical people to > contribute content to that site, Contribute allows you to do that much > easier than any other (free or not-free) HTML editor. > > Typically, you don't want non-technical content contributors dealing with > HTML formatting any more than necessary, and you want them to place their > content within a site format that you've already created. By creating > templates in Dreamweaver, you can control the layout of specific pages > created or edited in Contribute. This is quite a bit different than simply > limiting what a user can do in a folder - instead, you're limiting users to > publishing using an existing approved format. > > For this use, I don't think there's anything comparable to Contribute out > there, at any price point. This makes the $99 per seat cost look very small > to me. My biggest reservation about Contribute is that I'm not keen on the > idea of a static HTML site - I'd much rather see content stored within a > database. But, if an organization isn't ready to implement a real, > database-driven CMS, and will be using a static HTML site, I'd strongly > recommend looking at a Contribute/Dreamweaver solution - site designers > would use Dreamweaver to create and edit templates, and content contributers > would use Contribute. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > phone: 202-797-5496 > fax: 202-797-5444 > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
