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

Introduction

When Macromedia Contribute was introduced, both an opportunity and a challenge emerged. True, Contribute converted the Web from a read-only medium to a two-way communication tool and made it easy for almost anyone to publish online. It's also true that Contribute works with any type of static HTML page, regardless of the authoring program used to create it. Web content contributors were suddenly freed from their dependency on Webmasters to make any and all site updates—much to their mutual relief.

Before long, however, both camps realized that the break was not such a clean one. Some Web pages could not be edited as completely as contributors needed, whereas elements of other pages were too easy to modify: Layout choices implemented ...