DreamWeaver and Contribute

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[SuzyUK]

Possibly silly question time.. but here goes

I have some teaching to do and I've been told that the "standard" that will _probably_ be adopted in the schools in our area is DreamWeaver. (problem #1 I've never used it before)

Then they are mentioning "Contribute" as their "standard" CMS.

Now do these 2 x things go hand in hand or can "Contribute" be used with anything (e.g. FP, hand coded sites?)

I have the luxury this time of actually learning these products as I'm in charge of "getting them the right thing" so I get to play ;)

So would you say this is the right thing and should I be setting them up with both or just one.

And will I still need an FTP programme or is that built in to one/either of these

or is there something better/more intutitive that would suit absolute beginners upload/maintain their sites

Suzy

[terrahawk]

Hi,

I use both program and both have FTP functionality. I think if you are teaching students a program than you should use DreamWeaver. Once they know DreamWeaver, they can pick up the Contribute basics quickly if someone has set up a site to be managed with that.

I use Dreamweaver for my own development work, but I have to edit our home page/intranet with Contribute which our corporate office has set up (so Contribute is the CMS tool set up by my company). With Contribute, you can set up priviliges; for example, I cannot edit the includes (top, left, bottom menu items) with Contribute.

Peter

[balinor]

Hiya Suzy. I've just started playing around with Contribute, but it is a pretty good program and I think I'll be using it for my clients to make 'simple' updates to the pages. As terrahawk said, if you teach your students Dreamweaver, Contriubte will be no problem as it is essentially a 'lite' version of Dreamweaver. And yes, it can work with a page built in FP or any other editor for that matter.

As far as FTP goes, I still like the old school stand-alone FTP software instead of the built-in functions of Dreamweaver, but you can use either.

Good luck!

Regards,
Padraic

[SuzyUK]

Thanks for the replies

I did some research on the Contribute site yesterday too and was pleased to see that it could be used with other editors (even hand code ;))

So as they've already got FP..
I'm thinking Contribute will do fine first then they can get DW too if they want :)

Thanks Again
Suzy

(who now has to go off and learn it...)

[mat]

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.. there's also a thread 'back there' somewhere - consensus was that it was fine for small, limited access, but for multiple users, even on fast lines, forget it.