We've been using Dreamweaver/Contribute with both our primary public facing site (www.delmarvafoundation.org) and with our internal intranet. Both sites are template-based. To date, Contribute has performed just as advertised. The only area that may of concern is when a Contribute user runs into difficult with formatting issues that might need to be fixed code-side.
Our Contribute users publish everything from text to images, tables, documents, etc. Oh and there is another issue that is of concern, we are using a stats called LiveStats.Net and in order to have it track document stats, a piece JavaScript has to be added as an attribute to the anchor tag for a the document of interest - being that a Contribute user cannot access the code-side of an anchor tag, they cannot add the necessary piece of JavaScript. David -----Original Message----- From: David Blakey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 5:49 PM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Dreamweaver / Contribute At 10:51 a.m. 18/07/2007, you wrote: >Hi Everyone - > >I've got a client who wants to use Contribute for editing his site. Anyone >have any experience with it? I've looked at it, but not extensively. Is it >just a matter of configuring the roles, sending the key, etc.? Or does the >site have to have editable regions, templates, etc.? > >Thanks for any input! My experience of Contribute is that it works best on simple HTML pages, with tables and images and links. I think that templates are pretty much beyond it. If your user is editing a set of pages that use templates, my choice would be to opt for content management. I have seen sites that are completely open, and the Contribute users were trusted to only edit their own documents. My preference would be to enforce protection, even though Contribute probably cannot edit server-side code. Purely personally, I would only have users edit simple pages whose content may change often, and where the back-end is not capable of handling them. One example that springs to mind is a 'contacts' page of help desk staff. It still seems to occasionally get itself into a tangle with styles. Regards, David ____ * The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM * ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ Send Your Posts To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com To change subscription settings, add a password or view the web interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=wdvltalk ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. This message is confidential and may contain information that is privileged or protected from disclosure under applicable law. It is intended solely for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately, and delete and destroy the original message. This message does not necessarily express the corporate opinion of Delmarva Foundation and does not serve to bind Delmarva Foundation to any order or contract unless supported by an explicit written agreement. The sender and this organization accept no responsibility for any damage caused by a virus inadvertently transmitted by this message ____ The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ Send Your Posts To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com To change subscription settings, add a password or view the web interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=wdvltalk ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: unknown lmsubst tag argument: '' To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
