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Adobe Contribute
Adobe Contribute CS3
Developed by	Adobe Systems
Initial release	2003 by Macromedia[1]
Latest release	CS3 (4.1) / March 27, 2007
OS	Mac OS X, Windows
Genre	Web Design
License	Proprietary
Website	adobe.com

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Who uses Contribute

Contribute is primarily used by non-programmers as it employs an intuitive WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) development environment which allows those with little or no programming experience to keep websites and blogs edited and updated with content. A programmer or software developer is someone who programs computers, that is, one who writes computer software. ... For the Chumbawamba album, see WYSIWYG (album). ...

Pros and cons

Pros

• Contribute removes the need to have multiple programs to carry a simple task such as changing a spelling mistake, e.g. text editor, FTP, etc.
• Several users can update a given website simultaneously. Contribute will check whether the page a user is trying to amend is already being edited by others in order to prevent page version conflicts. There is also a page rollback feature that allows easy recovery from possible problems.
• Administrators can ensure the style, code, and integrity of a website is maintained while allowing users to update the site's content.
• Administrators can assign different editing permissions to users; for instance, some users might only be able to edit the text on a page, while others would have more options.
• Templates created with Macromedia Dreamweaver can be used in Contribute as well.
• Allows to keep website content fresh and blog entries current with a single application
• Contribute lets one manage multiple blog accounts and also allows offline blog entry creation.

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Cons

• Contribute is a client-side tool. This means that you will only be able to edit a website on a desktop that has Contribute.
• Contribute requires that every user be licensed. This can be a costly process if there are a lot of users set to update a website.
• Contribute is a website editing tool, not a website development tool. A web developer is still required to build the initial website design (usually using Dreamweaver templates).
• Contribute edits one page at a time, making complex design elements such as navigation menus hard to manage if they aren't controlled through a single source, like a database, Server Side Includes, or XML file.
• Updating a web site's content through Contribute can be a much slower process than using a more development-oriented tool, such as Macromedia Dreamweaver and an FTP program, since each page must be downloaded (and uploaded) individually.
• User cannot access source code, therefore any function code must be edited in a secondary program such as Dreamweaver. A new feature on the latest version (version 4.1) now allows Contribute users to add HTML code using the Insert HTML Snippet feature. However, this feature needs to be enabled by the Contribute Administrator.
• Links to documents on a file share, which is useful for intranet Web sites, are not possible through the WYSIWYG interface; Contribute automatically uploads a duplicate of the file to the Web server unless the user hardcodes the link using the HTML Snippet feature

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Early predecessors

The idea of a WYSIWYG web development platform is not new. Since the initial internet boom, software companies have been developing products aimed at enabling those not fluent in programming languages to create websites. Homesite and Geocities were both popular late-1990s alternatives, but these did little to allow creative flexibility and allow for collaborative content management. For the Chumbawamba album, see WYSIWYG (album). ... HomeSite is a HTML editor currently owned by Macromedia. ... Yahoo! GeoCities is a free webhosting service founded by David Bohnett and John Rezner in late 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet. ...

Contribute is a more advanced version of these early pioneers, in that it incorporates critical elements of web development behind the scenes, such as style sheets and the FTP process. CSS Zen garden with the Paravion style sheet CSS Zen garden with the Uncultivated style sheet Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a computer language used to describe the presentation of a structured document written in HTML, XHTML or XML. The CSS specification is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium... This article is about the File Transfer Protocol standardised by the IETF. For other file transfer protocols, see File transfer protocol (disambiguation). ...

Compatibility

Contribute 4 is available for Mac and Microsoft Windows. It includes Macromedia FlashPaper 2. The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... Windows redirects here. ... Macromedia FlashPaper 2 is a software application supplied by Macromedia. ...

Extensions

Adobe Contribute Publishing Server adds support for centralized user authentication and logging of site changes.

Webstruxure's siteNav removes the need to update navigation menus on every page. Any edit made to one page is automatically applied to all relevant pages. Requires a .NET webserver.

Alternative Packages

References

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External links

• Adobe Contribute