Macromedia Contribute 2.0

by Macromedia

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.1 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009YW8L
• Item model number: CTD020D000
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 16, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,036 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #59 in Software > Web Development > Professional Development

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Macromedia Contribute is the easiest way for individuals and teams to update, create, and publish web content to any HTML website. Administrative controls let non-technical users make content changes, while Contribute maintains site standards for style, layout, and code. Macromedia Contribute will save you time and streamline your web-content maintenance process.

Features:

• Web pros maintain control: lock down site design, code, and permissions with Contribute to keep your site safe from harm.
• It's easy to get up and running: the intuitive user interface enables end users to start publishing web content with no training.
• Dreamweaver MX and Contribute work together: build professional websites with Dreamweaver. Maintain them with Contribute.

Macromedia Contribute for Web professionals -- free yourself from Web updates and maintain control of your Website.

Macromedia Contribute for content owners -- update Web content yourself in minutes, without knowing HTML.

Macromedia Contribute 2 new features:

• Macromedia Contribute for Apple Macintosh: intuitive web publishing for Apple Mac OSX
• Macromedia FlashPaper: share any printable document in a compact, web-friendly Macromedia Flash format
• PayPal e-commerce: add e-commerce to your website with point-and-click simplicity

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Simplicity with Stable Output and Power, November 25, 2003

By 

Andre Da Costa "A.Da Costa" (Jamaica W.I.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Macromedia Contribute 2.0 (CD-ROM)

Contribute 2.0 gives the begining website developer power components to create stunning, stable websites. All of this, yet providing simplicity and sophisticated, rich controls that take drab websites to new heights. The program offers a built in FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client also adds Secure FTP for encryption. Contribute allows you to forget about the technical aspects of creating websites, while retaining its strength as powerful tool to the beginner. Simply click the edit button to switch to edit mode for a page and when you are done, just click publish and you are done, your page is updated. Assistance is always by your side, so you can never go wrong. The program does have its draw backs, you are not able to create a website or design one from scratch. The program introduces features for applying Cascading Style Sheet designes from a template, which is associated with Dreamweaver. Contribute features integration with Microsoft Office, you can easily import Word and Excel files, the only draw back it does not retain the font used either in the Word document or spreadsheet. Over all, for the beginner who might want a simple, powerful enough, web site tool, Contribute is an excellent starter and provides superior alternative to Macromedia Home Site and Microsoft FrontPage.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Comparing Contribute to Frontpage is Ludicrous, November 10, 2004

By 

Driussi - See all my reviews

This review is from: Macromedia Contribute 2.0 (CD-ROM)

To discredit Contribute because it doesn't allow you to resample images like Frontpage does is tantamount to going back to a horse and buggy because you don't like the windshield wipers on your new Lexus.
Incredible.
I've deployed this tool to a number of non-technical users to maintain their own corporate intranet web sites, and not one of them has been unhappy.
It's not perfect, but it gets better with each new release. As we attempt to break people of the bad code and skills they developed with Frontpage, Contribute is a blessing.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's good, but sometimes you have to look around 4 features, August 1, 2004

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M. A Finley - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Macromedia Contribute 2.0 (CD-ROM)

The previous poster was wrong, you can delete files, but only one at a time, and it's a process that takes a few steps for each file.

I find Contribute to be a good program, and easy to use. the WYSIWYG is not the greatest, and I find myself constantly adjusting margins because it has it's own way of doing things.

One of the coolest things about it is the ablility to transform office documents into flash paper, you have to see it to believe it, it's that cool.

Not a perfect program, but great for the application in which I am using it for, which is maintaining and updating a website that was built off of a template. I don't have to worry about messing up the design of the page, just the content