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Aycan
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Posted: Mon Nov 11th, 2002 11:21 pm |
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Macromedia Contribute allows users of virtually all experience levels to edit live web pages by using an uncluttered, easy-to-use interface. Here is how it works: By using Contribute's integrated web browser (actually it is nothing but Internet Explorer), go to the web page you want to update. Press the Edit Page button. Make your changes by using the WYSIWYG HTML editor. Then press the Publish button to save the changes. The results will appear almost instantly on the live site after an invisible FTP or LAN update in the background. You can also insert the contents of Word and Excel files to your pages with the original formating preserved.
Macromedia Contribute keeps a record of the changes you have made on a web site so you can cancel the changes altogether or go back to an old version. Multiple users can work on the same page without overwriting each others' changes. There is also an e-mail review option that allows users to get feedback from others for the changes they made before publishing.
Since Contribute fetches source files directly from the server via FTP or LAN while editing, don't expect to edit dynamically generated pages that usually have extensions like .php and .asp . Only the static HTML code in those files can be edited.
According to Macromedia, The Windows version will be available in December 2002, and the Mac OS X version in 2003. Contribute will be sold at an introductory price of $99. A preview version for Windows can be directly downloaded at http://www.macromedia.com/go/contribute_trial_en_win.
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http://www.macromedia.com/software/contribute/
Last edited on Wed Nov 13th, 2002 05:59 pm by Aycan
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atrick
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Posted: Sun Jan 19th, 2003 04:19 pm |
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Does anyone know what happens if a Contribute user tries to edit a page with included files in it? This product sounds interesting, but I wouldn't want users to try and mess with included headers or footers...
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Posted: Mon Jan 20th, 2003 01:14 am |
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Welcome to the Wow Web Designs forums atrick,
If you mean external CSS or JS files, they should be fine. Contribute only changes the source code of the edited file on the server. On the other hand, users could delete header and footer text/graphics if that's what you mean.
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atrick
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Posted: Mon Jan 20th, 2003 12:32 pm |
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I don't really mean stylesheets or JavaScript, but rather server-side included files. The source code for the page on the server just says something like:
<!--#include virtual="/include/headers/giving.htm" -->
and then when the page is viewed, the contents of the separate "giving.htm" file are folded in so it appears as if the page being viewed actually had that content in the same file on the server.
I wouldn't want the user to be able to change anything in the "giving.htm" file (in the above example). We also use that technique to put the standard header and footer on each page. Users can't be changing those. I guess if the rights to the included files were such that the user editing the page didn't have rights to save to the included area, then they wouldn't be able to do it. But I'm curious how Contribute will deal with this. I think I'll try it out and see! Sounds like a neat product tho...
Thx,
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ranjan
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Posted: Sat Mar 29th, 2003 06:01 pm |
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I may be late, however for the benefit of members who will read this post, I am going to reply all the same.
Contribute can be administered using either contribute or after installing Dreamweaver 6.1 Updater
The administrator can specify what is editable besides being able to specify whether or not images, includes, js and css are editable, if editable how heavy(set max kb).
So if header include file is set as uneditable, it will NOT be editable.
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Posted: Thu Jul 8th, 2004 06:26 pm |
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We have Dreamweaver MX 2004 7.0.
How do you administer Contribute from dreamweaver? We are looking for a way to be able to control the font color when the user is editing a page in Contribute. Font and font size are controllable but we haven't found a way to limit permissions on the font color.
Please help!
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Posted: Tue Jul 20th, 2004 12:16 pm |
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I'm pretty sure that in Contribute you can limit the users to use only styles specified in you CSS file.
You can therefore control the font colours that they get to use by creating font colour styles in the stylesheet.
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