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Contribute 3

by Macromedia
Windows 98 / 2000 / XP, Mac
2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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System Requirements

  • Platform:    Windows 98 / 2000 / XP, Mac
  • Media: CD-ROM
  • Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features

  • Easy Setup & Intuitive Interface
  • Starter Pages
  • Simple Three-Step Workflow
  • Editing and UpdatingCheck-in/Check-out
  • Integrated Image Editing
  • Drag-and-Drop Linking
  • Rollbacks
  • Improved CSS Rendering Collaboration
  • Draft Reviews & Approvals
  • Users and Roles

Product details

  • Item Weight: 18 g
  • Delivery Destinations: Visit the Delivery Destinations Help page to see where this item can be delivered.
  • ASIN: B0002OQY0O
  • Release Date: 9 July 2004
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,823 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

Macromedia® Contribute 3 redefines web publishing, making it an activity open to everybody, everyday, requiring no technical expertise. Contribute 3 lets everyone in an organization publish to websites, bringing them alive with up-to-date content and effective communication. Meets needs of business professionals, web professionals, and IT decision makers alike. Contribute 3 balances the need to empower users with web developers' requirements for administrative controls and support for standards; Anyone with permission can create and publish new web content, without requiring any resource from the IT department.;Total control - Whoever controls your site, still controls your site. They just get to delegate the day-to-day content management. The assets, functionality, branding and consistency of the site are totally protected.; Workload management - The Draft Console shows each author what is in their pipe-line for work, approval or review, so that they can keep on top of their content management workload. Web Professionals - Contribute 3 is built on Dreamweaver MX 2004. Free up your valuable time by delegating content updates. Control tools ensure that design standards are followed, functionality is maintained, and code is protected.IT Administrators - You can maintain total control using publishing roles for named users and groups. MSI installer technology allows direct deployment to desktops throughout the entire organisation.Contribute 3 provides robust client-side and server-side extensibility.Content Contributors - WYSIWYG user interface, familiar to Microsoft Office users, means no training is required. Content contributors no longer have to wait for technical staff to make web updates. Small Businesses - Small business owners can grow their web-based business using Contribute's professionally designed Starter Pages and the PayPal Merchant Tools.

Box Contents

  • Upon purchase of the English Box product you will have access to both Windows and Macintosh platforms
  • only one platform may be activated for use.
  • Upgrade box product includes a CD with printable electronic documentation.

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    71 of 71 people found the following review helpful:
    3.0 out of 5 stars Getting better, but not suitable for every web site, 1 Feb 2005
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    Ian Fleeton (Doncaster, South Yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
    This review is from: Contribute 3 (CD-ROM)
    Contribute 3 improves mainly on its predecessor by having a better CSS rendering engine - your web pages are more faithfully displayed in editing mode. Contribute 3 is for non-technical web site owners to make changes to their site. I have found that clients have been able to work with it with very little training due to its consistent word-processor style layout once they overcome the how-to-make-a-new-page-and-link hurdle.

    It is designed for use with static web sites rather than dynamic database-driven ones. It works well with static web sites when used with Dreamweaver templates, preventing users from editing sections that should not change. Further, I would not use this with a particularly large site, instead preferring to use a web-based content management system (CMS). Therefore I rarely use the new write / review / publish workflow feature.

    As a designer you can restrict writers to using only the CSS styles that you have created, rather than being able to select any font, colour and size at random.

    One drawback is the FTP speed - making a connection, checking for updated templates, synchronising, etc (slow even on broadband) - although it seems to have improved over the earlier versions. When publishing it is too common to get an error message but retrying tends to work.

    You may want to check the license before buying an OEM copy - ours from another supplier had a "Not for commercial use" message on the splash screen.

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    11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars So Simple So Excellent, 28 July 2005
    By A Customer
    This review is from: Contribute 3 (CD-ROM)
    I used a trial version of this software and loved it to bits, i had a little experience in web design in terms of basic programming, but this makes you wonder why bother with the different languages. If your looking to get into web design but get bored of all the usual other web design packages with the same old design and interface, try this beleive me you will be surprised at how easy it is to get to grips with.
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    1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
    2.0 out of 5 stars Contribute confusion, 7 Feb 2007
    This review is from: Contribute 3 (CD-ROM)
    I find this a very annoying programme to use. It lacks some really simple but important tools. For example there is no way of checking for dead hyperlinks. Additionally the design screen doesn't follow the WYSIWYG fromat, what you see isn't necessarily what you get on the published page! This is really frustrating in that you keep having to swap between the design draft and the published page to see if its behaving. Quite often its not, for example large blank sections appear in the page and any images may not be where you laid them out in the design draft. Get it together Macromedia!
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