I realise that this discussion was finished a few days ago, but I'm just catching up on my lists and I thought I'd chime in here with a response to one comment which was not picked up on by anyone in subsequent replies.
On 12/2/05, Hassan Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It does not, in my experience, work well with other than fairly basic > CSS (IE-positioning bugs can make it impossible to select text and > hence edit). While versions 1 and 2 had some issues here, version 3 of Contribute is pretty much flawless in this respect. I've yet to find a CSS layout it couldn't work with. Design time CSS (CSS files that are only loaded by DW/Contribute) make it very easy to tweak layouts to make them easier to edit. > The WYSIWYG aspect also doesn't work particularly well > when parts of the page are incorporated through includes. As Contribute is page-based, anything that's in an include is not editable (as essentially it's another page). We create client-editable drop down menus by including the unordered list in a separate file. The client can then browse to http://theirsite.com/nav.html in Contribute and edit that page - that is, change the links in a clean, simple, unordered list - to change the drop down navigation. It actually makes a lot of sense to the end user, and a similar system could be created for sites that use includes for other areas. Design-time CSS is useful here - you can specify the way things will look for the client while they are editing it. An alternative to includes is using the full capabilities of DW templates - nesting, optional and repeating regions, etc. They're actually pretty powerful, and as they are handled entirely by DW and Contribute no server-side component is required. Essentially, I'm a big believer in using the right tool for the job. We do a lot of CMS work, but for small static HTML sites (say 1 to 30 pages) we've not found a better solution than Contribute. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.com/ ********************************************************* The CMS discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *********************************************************
