Design and Deploy web sites with Macromedia® Dreamweaver® MX 2004 and Contribute® 3: Training from the Source

Chapter 5. Handling External Documents

One of Macromedia Contribute's mandates is to blur the line between the online and the offline office. Any organization that has been around for even a short time has accumulated a wide range of documents—typically in word processing or spreadsheet files. Much of the initial work on a Web site, particularly an intranet site, involves making the information contained in these types of documents available online. Contribute makes it easy to incorporate external documents into a Web site. Perhaps the biggest challenge facing the site designer is how to manage the ever-increasing deluge of non–HTML files in an HTML-based structure.

In Contribute 3, the Administrator can specify on a role-by-role basis where external ...