Some advice for a prospective user please.

[ADAM BURTON]

Hello, I have been looking through some of the documentation on the Adobe web
site and I have read several posts that have answered some of my questions but
I just want to be certain that Contribute is the product that I need, or rather
my client needs, for a web site that I am making. Thank you very much for any
advice that you can give, I apologise if my questions are tedious and you have
answered them before, by all means refer me to another post that is relevant to
my questions.

Um... I am making a web site in Dreamweaver. Can I upload the web site in the
same way as I would if I was not using Contribute and then allow someone else
to come along and edit the page using this software? Or put another way; can
you use contribute to edit any page on the web providing you have the
appropriate access?

I read in another post that the designer does not have to own Contribute, only
the client who will be editing the site does. What I want to make sure about is
that as the designer I will not have to do anything different to what I would
normally do and all of the Contribute use is at their end.

Thank you very much for your help. It is much appreciated.

Kind regards,

Adam.

[Kevin Blount]

ADAM BURTON wrote:

> Hello, I have been looking through some of the documentation on the Adobe web
> site and I have read several posts that have answered some of my questions but
> I just want to be certain that Contribute is the product that I need, or rather
> my client needs, for a web site that I am making. Thank you very much for any
> advice that you can give, I apologise if my questions are tedious and you have
> answered them before, by all means refer me to another post that is relevant to
> my questions.
>
> Um... I am making a web site in Dreamweaver. Can I upload the web site in the
> same way as I would if I was not using Contribute and then allow someone else
> to come along and edit the page using this software? Or put another way; can
> you use contribute to edit any page on the web providing you have the
> appropriate access?
>
> I read in another post that the designer does not have to own Contribute, only
> the client who will be editing the site does. What I want to make sure about is
> that as the designer I will not have to do anything different to what I would
> normally do and all of the Contribute use is at their end.
>
> Thank you very much for your help. It is much appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Adam.
>

Hi Adam,

To answer your first question:
Yes, Contribute can connect to the same remote site that you use with
Dreamweaver, and you're exactly right that it can be used to edit only
those pages the Contribute user has permissions to. In my company I'm
the only person using Dreamweaver, as the site administrator, and
everyone else uses Contribute. My use of Dreamweaver is basically to
create templates and make some changes that aren't possible in
Contribute (such as folder renaming and mass file deletion), but any new
pages I create using Contribute as well, though I could use Dreamweaver.

for your second question:
I'm not really sure. My setup uses Contribute Publishing Server (CPS)
and this connect to Active Directory, allowing me to assign users to
roles within Contribute. Now, while Dreamweaver does let me administer
the website using Contribute screens, I don't know if I could do this
without Contribute installed on the same PC (which it is). Possibly,
Yes.. but I don't know.

[chrisarnini]

I use dreamweaver with multiple contribute users without using contribute
myself most of the time and this is without using the CPS.

I have not done anything different on my end in dreamweaver besdies making a
seperate CSS sheet for the contribute users to use for applying styles. It made
it easier then them seeing a whole bunch of styles they had no idea what to do
with.

I also setup the permissions with dreamweaver. I do know in my suiite I bought
contribute was included for free which was a good way to test out what the end
user was seeing.

[surfstoke]

I am experienced with DW and looking into using Contribute for my client to
manage some of their own content. Will I be able to develop the site and test
locally and then publish to the web as a contibute enabled site? Then, are all
changes done by me in DW or the client in Contribute done on the remote files?
If so, do i update my local files from the remote site?

Also, I assume that I can make a DW template for any new pages in contribute,
correct?

And, w/out the CPS, can users make changes that may be reviewed before going
live? Email notification?

And, book rec (for exp DW user) for learning contribute?