From my experience users are much more happy with Contribute than the interfaces provided by CMSs. However, for many organizations Contribute simply doesn't support the dynamic nature of their web sites or applications. I know Contribute put us on notice of how much better our interface needed to be, which is why we began a project to rewrite our interface from scratch. In the mean time though, we wrote a connector that allows users to make use of Contribute as a front-end to our CMS. It doesn't support all of our functionality because Contribute just doesn't do that much, but the combination of Contribute and our interface (for the more advanced/technical users) is a good combination for some.
-Matt On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 05:31 PM, BRIAN MELOCHE wrote: > This is along the same lines as my Content Management Systems thread... > > Have any of you out there had a chance to use Contribute in a real > world situation? I am curious to get some feedback on Contribute, and > how it compares to a CMS in terms of administration requirements and > problems users have using Contribute versus a CMS. I don't need > details on how Contribute works versus a CMS. I am looking for some > feedback on maintenance and tech support of Contribute users and setup > versus what we see now using our CMS, which is a bad system, and in > need of an upgrade/replacement. > > Has anyone scrapped a CMS for Contribute? How did it go? > > Any Contribute horror stories? > > We are considering using Contribute instead of upgrading the CMS or > replacing it with a new one. We think that users might find it easier > to update content using Contribute versus doing it in an > upgraded/better CMS. > > Thanks in advance. > > Sincerely, > > Brian Meloche, > 4th Floor, ITO - 414 > CSS > (304) 759-0585 x448 > Macromedia Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5.0 Developer > 130 pounds lost and counting! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
