[Sigia-l] Web publishing tools: Contribute2

[Whitney Quesenbery]

It's actually very easy to add images or any other file - you can browse to 
an image on the site or on your hard drive. If you choose a file on your 
hard drive, it automatically uploads it when the page is published.

New pages can be added in two ways:

1. You can open an existing page, edit it and do a "publish as new"
2. You can create a new page, which will be based on one of the templates 
(regular DWTs) available for the site.

You can also create a page on the fly by creating a link and doing a "link 
to new page."

If you are used to seeing source code, doing anything really complicated, 
or working with media, Contribute is the wrong thing. But for simple 
"update this page" - it's great. It was clearly designed to be unintimidating.

We have some people working on sections of the site with DW, while others 
are managing their sections with C2 - the mix is pretty seamless EXCEPT for 
the fact that the locking systems are different. We just make sure that 
most people working in C2 only have permissions for their own areas plus 
the shared assets directories.

There is also a first use of a Flash Paper, something new that's going into 
all the Macromedia products. I haven't played with it much yet, but it 
loads fast and has a small, simple and attractive toolbar. For a quick 
comparison, see:

http://www.stcsig.org/usability/newsletter/ui_oct2003_print.swf
http://www.stcsig.org/usability/newsletter/ui_oct2003_print.pdf


At 05:05 PM 11/6/2003 -0800, Richard Law wrote:
>I think he would also like to update images too and build new pages off the
>others pages. It's a pretty simple portfolio-focused site, and it's pretty
>image heavy.
>
>Richard
>
>On 11/6/03 4:46 PM, "Whitney Quesenbery" <wq2 at sufficiently.com> wrote:
>
> > Richard
> >
> > I've also been using Contribute 2 (upgraded mid-project) for a site.
> >
> > I know Dreamweaver well, but this site has many authors, and is hosted
> > elsewhere. I love being able to hop on, make some text changes and hop off.
> > And I love not accidentally changing the proportions of the page (a mix of
> > DIV and tables) while I'm just editing text.
> >
> > I think it is just perfect for the situation you describe - with someone
> > updating content on a designed site.
> >
> >
> >
> > At 04:24 PM 11/6/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> >> Stephanie,
> >>
> >> Thanks for the feedback! I'll pass this on to my friend. He owns a small
> >> design firm and doesn't know a lick of HTLM. He wants to make edits to a
> >> site I designed and hand coded about five years ago. I think DreamWeaver
> >> would even be too complex for him.
> >>
> >> Richard
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11/6/03 1:00 PM, "stephanie hornung" <dehfne at monkey.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Okay, I talked to the people who use Contribute...
> >>>
> >>> As you may have gathered from the case study, my team really loves 
> it.  As
> >>> I thought, its a great low-cost solution, at about $100 per client, 
> so its
> >>> perfect for smaller sites where a full blown CMS would be overkill.
> >>>
> >>> It also works on Macs and PCs, has good CSS support and works really
> >>> easily with Dreamweaver (but DW is not required).
> >>>
> >>> Only problem we've seen is some small bugs with dynamic content.  Nothing
> >>> major though.
> >>>
> >>> Hope this helps
> >>> Stephanie
> >>>
> >>> Richard Law said:
> >>>> Does anyone on the list have any positive or negative experience's using
> >>>> Macromedia's new web publishing too called Contribute2? Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>> Richard
> >>>>
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> > Whitney Quesenbery
> > Whitney Interactive Design, LLC
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> > e. whitneyq at wqusability.com
> > p. 908-638-5467
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Whitney Quesenbery
Whitney Interactive Design, LLC
w. www.WQusability.com
e. whitneyq at wqusability.com
p. 908-638-5467

UPA  - www.usabilityprofessionals.org
STC Usability SIG: www.stcsig.org/usability