Hi Robert, To my knowledge, Contribute does not at this time offer support for database updates. It's more of a front end tool, as you say, but used appropriately it's got some nice features. It's much easier, for example, to use for non-technical members than DW and it offers some control over who can update what on particular sites.
Stephen O'Grady Analyst RedMonk -----Original Message----- From: Robert Clarke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [cms-list] Contribute I'm intrigued by Macromedia Contribute, but am confused about what it actually does. As far as I can tell it's a simple editor that uses Dreamweaver templates to let non technical staff edit live web pages. The organisation I work for has taken the decision (long before I worked here, I hasten to add) to give Dreamweaver to as many staff as possible to enable them to make their own updates to their part of the site, thus supposedly reducing the workload for the Web Developers. It seems obvious that Contribute will give us an advantage over Dreamweaver in the sense that it should stop non-technical staff messing up our templates and doing their own "design" work on the pages. What I am most interested in though is if it could be integrated with other applications as a step towards a fully integrated CMS. One of the biggest failings of our site at the moment is that information is not shared across the site (e.g. see also lists, recent article lists). Does Contribute have any sort of functionality that would allow it, for instance, to update a centralised Metadata database? does it keep a database itself? Even the smallest amount of progress in this direction would be a huge step forward for us. Thanks in advance, Rob -- _______________________________________________ http://www.operamail.com Now with OperaMail Premium for only US$29.99/yr Powered by Outblaze -- http://cms-list.org/ more signal, less noise. -- http://cms-list.org/ more signal, less noise.
