would Contribute work for this?

[choirellie]

Hi,
I'm rather new to Contribute and trying to learn more about possible
applications for what seems like a convenient piece of software.

I am an independent web designer/developer and have separate clients with
non-related websites each of which is hosted remotely. Would I be able to set
up a client as a Contribute user (assuming they bought the software) and allow
them to edit areas of their site?

This may seem like a dumb question, but in going through several tutorials it
isn't clear to me whether Contribute is intended for content editors all of
whom work within one organization and who all access a web server within their
organization's IT network to do this editing.

I can't quite understand how the software on the desktop on my client's
computer interfaces at all with settings that I set on my own installation. Is
some server technology needed here?

Confused...

Ellie Armsby

[ThinkInk]

I am an independent web designer/developer and have separate clients with
non-related websites each of which is hosted remotely. Would I be able to set
up a client as a Contribute user (assuming they bought the software) and allow
them to edit areas of their site?

Yes, that is possible. Each client would have his own license though. You
could then administer the sites from your own copy of Contribute.

This may seem like a dumb question, but in going through several tutorials it
isn't clear to me whether Contribute is intended for content editors all of
whom work within one organization and who all access a web server within their
organization's IT network to do this editing. I can't quite understand how the
software on the desktop on my client's computer interfaces at all with settings
that I set on my own installation. Is some server technology needed here?

The editors don't have to be working in the same organization. The
connection is made through ftp-like connections from the users computer to the
server, and the administration of the site is maintained at the server and kept
up to date at the clients computer. I suggest you download the trial version of
Contribute CS3 to check it out.