Contribute: Hassle-Free Content Control [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Bill Barrett (Author), Marc A. Garrett (Author), Michael D. Hazard (Author), Brandon Heffernan (Author), Lyn Wall (Author), Marc A. Garrett (Author), Michael D. Hazard (Author)

Book Description

Series: Toolset | Publication Date: March 2003

Macromedia's Contribute allows Web Professionals to save the time spent performing content updates, by devolving the responsibility and know-how back to the content owners. You identify which areas of which pages users are allowed to update, and they can do this with no technical know-how and with no risk of breaking the site. The net result? They get content updated when they need it - and you get time to spend on Web Design. After all, isn't that why you got into the Web in the first place?

This book teaches you all you need to know on setting up the system ... and, uniquely, you're entitled to unlimited free downloads of the glasshaus Contribute End-User Training Guide. By distributing it to the content owners, you empower them and liberate yourself.

What this book covers:

Site Definitions and Connections
Links, Images, and Non-HTML Documents
Customizing Contribute
Best Practices
Selling Contribute to your users and management
Training users
Supporting Contribute
Using Templates in Contribute
Editing dynamic web sites with server-side includes

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book is for web professionals and site owners who will administer Contribute, and those responsible for training end-users in an organisation.

Product Details

• Paperback: 185 pages
• Publisher: Glasshaus (March 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904151280
• ISBN-13: 978-1904151289
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,093,810 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Wonderful, April 16, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Contribute: Hassle-Free Content Control (Paperback)

I enjoyed this book and recommend it to others. It's an easy read even if you are a beginner, but isn't too simple for more advanced users. It provides essential material on how to set up Contribute and customizing it which was a great help. These authors produced a book that offers both practical and readable understanding. The only complaint I can say about the book was the tutorials are not available from Glasshaus, but from what I heard they went out of business so I guess I shouldn't have expected too much out of them.

1.0 out of 5 stars No, July 17, 2003

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Faust Gertz (Decorah, IA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Contribute: Hassle-Free Content Control (Paperback)

Note: I just discovered that APress seems to have the glasshaus, as well as many wrox, books and the _Contribute End-User Training Guide_ is now available for download. I will update my review after working through it.

The whole reason I purchased this book over books half the price was for the unlimited free downloads of the glasshaus _Contribute End-User Training Guide_ from their web site. It is not there. I have since discovered that the publisher is officially insolvent. Of course, their web site doesn't mention this fact. It just says to keep checking their site for their _Contribute End-User Training Guide_.

Hey glasshaus! Thanks for keeping your site up to date! Thanks for putting a present tense promise on the back of a book and shipping it without ever bothering to put the guide on your site for download.

If you need to learn to use Contribute and can't just figure it out on your own or from the online documentation, save yourself about $... and get something like the _Visual QuickStart Guide_. Just don't buy this book expecting an end-user training guide.