Macromedia Contribute

[Laslett]

Has anyone used this yet or any of the MM products not directly for creation purposes?

[DDD]

yes.....contribute is the bomb.....flash paper is great. I encourage my clients to get this whenever I make a site. It really frees me up from having to do menial changes.

[Laslett]

In laymans terms (without the blurb fro MM site) how does it all work?

[DDD]

basically it is a pretty much fool proof way to let your less technical clients make updates to their website. It is so simple it is hard to explain. And you can set up access levels meaning. If you do not want a user to be able to change images only text you can do that. It uses FTP, similar to DW. The user sees the page exactly as a browser views it. Matter of fact it looks like a browser. The can preview changes b4 submitting also.....I recommend getting the trial version.

[Laslett]

I read that Word doc can be used to update does the text go diectly from the word doc to html?

[DDD]

yes....you actually can setup a few things concerning that. I have fully used that feature yet. But it is well worth the 99 bucks. It save me from those crazy updates that people often want done. Get the trial and mess around with it. I think you will like it.

[Laslett]

how easy is it to trial without being on a web server?