[ST] An easy way for content providers to update pages on the Arisia web site

[Sharon Sbarsky]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Warren Mayer wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Sharon made a comment recently that she likes Dreamweaver and its type of 
> software but its too involved to let content editors create pages and content 
> for the 2008 Arisia web site.
>

That's not quite what I said.

> My suggestion to the group would be to use Contribute CS3 (what I call 
> "Dreamweaver Lite"). It is a program that allows users to connect to the web 
> site via a key that is sent to them by the site administrators (once the set 
> the Dreamweaver site up as "Contribute Capable").  Once connected they can 
> either pull down templates that have been posted on the site for them to use, 
> or pull down previously published web pages to edit and then republish. 
> Contribute can be configured to send pages to someone for review prior to 
> publication so they don't go directly to the web server (this helps with 
> "junior" content providers requiring content approval from "senior" site 
> administrators.
>

I wouldn't recommend using the Dreamweaver templates when the pool of 
possible content editors is very large and some may prefer not to use the 
Contribute "republish" feature. I've seen too many cases where the 
template was damaged and the file could not be edited again until it was 
fixed with a raw text editor (not even Dreamweaver's source mode.) More 
details are available if people are interested. If everyone uses the 
Contribute features then the code probably remains "clean", but that is 
putting more requirements on everyone.

> Info on Contribute can be found at:
> <http://www.adobe.com/products/contribute/>http://www.adobe.com/products/contribute/
>
> Best of all, it works with both the Mac (Yay!) and Windows.
>

So instead of asking a subset of the content editors to use another 
browser to do their work, you are asking *everyone* to install software 
and use a special client? And as Dave mentioned, you are now exculding 
Linux users.

Sharon