Rob, Contribute will enable you to edit existing HTML pages on a live server.
It is a basic WYSIWYG editor, using the MM Dreamweaver interface and is = able to utilise DW functionality such as templates, so a developer can = restrict which portions of content are able to be edited. Unfortunately Contribute is unable to work with dynamically generated = content using any type of server-middleware, thus falling well short of = a "proper" content management solution. It is best thought of as a static, WYSIWYG HTML editor for online = editing of pages - albeit linked into Dreamweaver's functionality = regarding templates. HTH Steve Minton Senior e-business consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.steve-minton.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Clarke " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 3:13 PM 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://cms-list.org/ more signal, less noise.
