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* If your company buys a content management system, make sure that the system can export your content so that search engine spiders can crawl your site.
Wondering if anyone knows if using Macromedia Contribute affects the spiders- particularly Googlebot.
Georgina
That's an excellent question. I plan on downloading the trial very soon, but my plate's too full right now for experimenting.
I hope someone has taken a look - I'd love a report.
The designer then runs Contribute and specifies the files which the client can and cannot edit. S/he can then send a config file to the client which tell Contribute this. The client uses Contribute to edit their pages, based on the rules set out by the designer (ie the page editable regions and which files they can modify).
On the question of spiderability, Contribute creates flat files, so it's up to the designer/developer to ensure that the page is formated for optimum spiderability. So I don't think that it has any impact on that at all.
It's a nice, affordable little package - nothing too fancy at all. My one concern is that Contributes GUI for the client is very similar to Dreamweaver and I would feel that this could be quite a daunting interface for non-tech users. Other than that it's a nice package and I definitely would give it the thumbs up.
