Upgrade to Contribute 4 ??

[Truelight54]

I am the primary editor for our department's website ( [url]www.isp.state.id.us[/url] )
and most of the work is done by myself and a few others in our department with
Contribute 3. It's getting the job done for us and I'm a firm believer in the
"if it ain't broke, don't break it" school of thought. However, if a new
version of software will bring enhancements and the bugs have been worked out,
I'll give it some thought. Tell me why I would (or wouldn't) want to upgrade
to Contribute version 4.

Also... if I as the administrator upgrade, do my other users have to as well
or could they stick with the versions they have?

[Marje]

The ability to correctly make absolute links. This is very important to our clients who send out their own newsletters. They need to create absolute links to the images and URLs in their newsletters.

[Truelight54]

I'm not sure I understand the term "absolute links" and what that will do for
me that I'm not doing now when I hyperlink to a file on my website. Much of
the use we have for Contribute is maintaining our department's inter and
intranet sites. How would "absolute links" (vs what non-absolute links?
virtual links? what else is there?) help me?

[Marje]

These are the instructions we send out to our clients on Absolute Links ...

CREATING ABSOLUTE ADDRESSES

Absolute address: [url]http://www.mywebsite.com/about.html[/url]

Relative address: about.html

On inserting an image or creating a text link, Contribute by default creates a
relative link. If you are creating an email newsletter, all links (image and
text) in your newsletter must be absolute links so that your viewers can see
the images and click on the links from within their email programs

To make a link absolute, use Contribute to edit an image?s or link?s URL

1. Right-click on the image or text link.

2. Select either ?image properties? or ?link properties?.

3. Enter the absolute path for the image next to ?Image File? for images;
enter the absolute path for the text link in the box next to HREF for text
links. If the HREF text box is not visible, click the ?Advanced? button.

4. Click OK.

5. Publish the page.

[Keith Mellican]

It will have a Contirbute CS3(v4.1) upgrade in Creative Suite 3

[Arun Kumar M]

Truelight54 wrote:

> I am the primary editor for our department's website ( [url]www.isp.state.id.us[/url] )
> and most of the work is done by myself and a few others in our department with
> Contribute 3. It's getting the job done for us and I'm a firm believer in the
> "if it ain't broke, don't break it" school of thought. However, if a new
> version of software will bring enhancements and the bugs have been worked out,
> I'll give it some thought. Tell me why I would (or wouldn't) want to upgrade
> to Contribute version 4.
>
> Also... if I as the administrator upgrade, do my other users have to as well
> or could they stick with the versions they have?
>

CT4 has support for Blogs added. You can connect to wordpress blogs,
typepad blogs, movable type blogs, blogger etc. Support for Instant web
publishing from your microsoft office applications like MS Word, MS
Excel, MS Outlook (Windows only) using Contribute Toolbar plugin.
Support for instant publishing from Browsers (Internet Explorer (win
only) and Firefox (Both win and mac)),.... Ability to insert Flash
Videos into your web pages...

To learn whats new in Adobe Contribute CS3 ... look here..
..[url]http://blogs.adobe.com/expertsexchange/2007/04/adobe_contribute_cs3_whats_new.html[/url]