Contribute?
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- stevegee
Anyone ever use Macromedia Contribute?
I've got a client who wants their shiny new site to be "Front Page Ready" so she can update it. I told her flat out NO, but that I'd either use Contribute or a CMS (Supersimple.org or something).
Any experience with Contribute?
thanks,
Steve
- Luckypp0
I use it, it's great.
- ********0
I use it. It really works great.
Part of me feels it's taken a bit away from the updates work I used to do so I'm not billing clients for that anymore, but that also means it's cleared up a lot of the bullshit requests to add another press release or change a persons name and such.
And, if they do fuck it up in Contribute I charge to fix it.
It really is nice for them though. They do need a bit of HTML know how though.
- stevegee0
thanks... I thought that they DON't need to know HTML at all with Contribute, that it's similar to Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG editor?
Can you tell me how it fits into your work flow with building the sites?
- monkeyshine0
I personally had terrible experience with Contribute. Whenever the client updated content, Contribute added all of this wanky code that eventually broke the page...as in 20+ non-breaking spaces, etc.
- stevegee0
hmmm... interesting to hear monkeyshine.
thanks.
- versa0
I've used it, and its cool, but I don't like the HTML is spits out
validation unfriendly, or at least the version i used
- stevegee0
thanks to you too Versa...
Can any of ya'all tell me how you integrate it into your site design?
- Does the site need to be built in DW, or can it be hand coded?
Etc...
thanks
- kev_charlton0
either or, but if you have sections you want to be untouchable by the client (ie the nav) i think that needs to be done in a dw template.
From my experience it works fine. Did a site for my brother's band, and he loves it..." just like using word" were his words if i remember correctly.
Make sure you set up the css right, and tell them to use the 'styles' drop down instead of styling it themselves...that way you avoid the blue headlines and red links!