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Also, does anyone know how the licence works?
I couldnt find it on their site. What if i want to give it to 3 contributers in the same company, do i need to buy 3 licences?
Also i think im right in saying that this is a package which sits on the users system, not the web server? I am right? In which case, is being a macromedia contribute reseller a good option, and should i seel it seperatly or in with my webdesign price?
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It looks good though - I guess I need to fire up my pure windows machine and check it out.
There is also planned to be some kind of "volume discount" - but it looks as if this will be more for large corporate users and educational establishments.
Reaction has been extremely positive from designers who see this as a way of getting clients to make changes to their own sites and as a sales advantage to include in their packages.
Others, who have maintenance contracts or who wonder about giving access to their client list to Macromedia, are more sceptical.
Personally, I can see the advantages in some cases (in fact, I'm probably going to recommend it to a prospective client tomorrow).
However, I am perturbed at the general concept behind this that "content" doesn't really count and the way that this is being marketed to designers as a way of freeing them up from tiresome content changes. As SEOs, copywriters or marketing professionals, we should know better.
Secondly, once Macromedia has got a whole load of new entry-level buyers from designers' client lists, what do they do with them in the future?
Very clever marketing, indeed.
(Edited for spelling.)
[edited by: stever at 4:56 pm (utc) on Nov. 18, 2002]
In fact, there are lots of free solutions, not just MT. With MT however, you have to pay a licensing fee if it is used in a commercial setting or if you don't want to display their "powered by logo"
That's when Contribute starts to look like a contender.
It's a very simplified version of the Dreamweaver GUI, which works on a Template system - with editable areas for the client to update.
What I do like about it is that, as the developer, you can send over a config-like file to your client which tells Contribute which files they can and cannot edit, which I personally thought was a very nice feature.
I'd be interested to hear from anyone who may have/will shortly be rolling this out to a client - as to what the client thought of their Contribute interface.
But from what ive read on their site it does sound good, and good be usefull for some of my sites
e.g. I have a client with hundreds of cost tables (each on its own page, with other text) its a nighmare updating them. Will Contribute let my client edit the cost tables and not other text on the same pages?
So, yes - as long as the only editable region in the page is the table.
So how do you specify an editable region on the page?
Within the Template you can create Editable Regions which act as the area for your clients to modify the content in Contribute..
