Macromedia Contribute 3 Win/Mac [Old Version]

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• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
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• ASIN: B000CS3SIQ
• Item model number: 38000816
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 13, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,243 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Macromedia Contribute 3 redefines Web publishing, making it an activity open to everybody, everyday. Contribute empowers business users while providing administrative controls and support for standards.

Contribute 3 makes Web site maintenance easy. Contribute lets everyone in an organization publish to Web sites and bring them alive with up-to-date information. There is no easier or more affordable way to keep Web content current and relevant.

Why Contribute 3

Simplifies Web publishing
Publish to the Web in three simple steps: browse to the page that needs updating, edit it, click "publish," and it's done. The intuitive WYSIWYG environment offers point-and-click simplicity--no more complicated forms for simple updates.

Keep Web sites up to date
Communicate efficiently and give stakeholders access to the latest information. Contribute and Dreamweaver users can now work together seamlessly, eliminating bottlenecks and keeping Web sites alive with fresh content and current communications.

Maintain Web site integrity
Contribute 3 keeps Web sites up to date while making sure they stay looking great. Content created in Contribute matches the look and feel of the site thanks to Dreamweaver templates and advanced CSS support. Contribute 3 ensures design standards are met, functionality is maintained, and code is protected.

Contribute and Your Business

• Web Agencies and Independent Developers: empower your clients to update their sites with Contribute 3.
• Small and Medium Businesses: use Contribute 3 to easily update your sites and save money.
• Large Organizations: institute reviews, approvals, and centrally manage Web publishing.

Create and Update

Contribute 3 is familiar to users of Microsoft Office applications and requires no technical expertise. Powered by the same market-leading technology as Macromedia Dreamweaver, there is no easier way to keep Web content current and relevant.

Easy to use.
Publish to the Web in three simple steps: Browse to the page that needs updating, edit it, and click "publish"--it's done. The intuitive, visual environment offers point-and-click simplicity--no more complicated forms to make simple updates. Grow your small business using professionally designed Starter Pages and PayPal Merchant Tools for e-commerce to enhance the value of your Web site.

Extend documents to the Web.
Quickly link any document to a Web site or copy and paste from Microsoft Office while keeping text formatting and HTML code standards intact. Macromedia FlashPaper 2 for Mac OS and Windows converts any file into a fast-loading, accessible Flash document with full text search and selection. Plus, the Windows version of FlashPaper can create Adobe PDF files.

Design and develop without limits.
Because Contribute 3 is compatible with HTML standards and offers advanced support for CSS, Web professionals can use their current skills to build Contribute-compatible Web sites. With new Shared Assets, common page elements can be centrally deployed to Contribute users. Contribute 3 also expands publishing capabilities beyond text updates with new inline image editing and video insertion features.

Collaborate and Control

Contribute 3 makes distributed Web publishing a reality, allowing content publishers and Web developers to work together efficiently. Tight Dreamweaver integration and enhanced administrative controls provide an integrated system suited to organizations large and small.

Worry-free Web site updates.
Now Web site administrators can control who can edit and who can publish. The flexible approval system allows edited Web pages to be reviewed before publishing and includes a Draft Console that summarizes the status of work in progress. Groups can work together safely using built-in versioning, one-click rollback, and page locking to prevent accidental overwrites.

Easy, powerful administration.
Web site administrators can exercise direct, comprehensive control using publishing roles for named users and groups. New editing permissions can specify the location of dependent files, as well as the size and quality of images. Enhanced controls for CSS and support for Dreamweaver templates protect the integrity of page layout and design.

Frictionless Dreamweaver integration.
Contribute 3 ensures design standards are met, functionality is maintained, and code is protected--allowing non-technical contributors to update technically advanced sites safely. Contribute 3 also offers Web professionals new direct source editing in external editors. Used together with Contribute 3, Dreamweaver 8 provides integrated administrative controls for most Contribute-enabled Web sites.

Integrate and Deploy

Contribute 3 revolutionizes Web publishing without requiring new infrastructure or Web site redesigns. It works with existing HTML Web sites, standard development tools, and enterprise systems--providing a safe, cost-effective answer for organizations of all sizes.

Unlock Web publishing everywhere.
Contribute 3 can be easily deployed across an entire organization. MSI installer technology allows direct deployment to desktops throughout the enterprise. Encrypted connection keys automatically connect users by e-mail, and Contribute Publishing Services provides central management of site connections and integration with Active Directory and LDAP user directories.

Standards-based.
Contribute 3 enables Web publishing in almost any computing environment and can be used to edit any HTML Web site. Content is cross-browser compatible and can easily be made Section 508-compliant for accessibility. New direct editing supports file-based content and learning management systems. High-speed, secure site connections are possible with new WebDAV support in addition to SFTP, FTP, and LAN.

Customization and extensibility.
Contribute 3 provides robust client-side and server-side extensibility. The JavaScript and XML client extensibility layer can be extensively configured and deployed to meet custom needs. The new Web services-based notification system enables server-side extension development and powers the logging, e-mail, and notification features of Contribute Publishing Services.

Product Description
Macromedia Commercial Contribute 3.0 for Windows and Mac

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good product, but no longer supported by Adobe/Macromedia, March 27, 2006

By	Auri Rahimzadeh "Author, Hacking the PSP, www... (Indianapolis, IN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Overall: Contribute (3/5), Contribute Publishing Server (3/5)
Capabilities: Contribute (3/5), Contribute Publishing Server (3/5)
Support: 0
Pirce: 3/5

Contribute is a good product. Unfortunately, the Publishing Server is no longer supported by Macromedia or Adobe, and none of their sales reps know anything about the product. Their support department will charge you for a support incident, only to tell you afterwards they don't know who to go to for support on the product.

For easy site editing, and if you don't need the publishing server component, which was nice while it lasted, then Contribute is fine. It supports rolling back to previous versions and is easy enough to use.

However, the Contribute's real reason d'etre was for enterprise document editing with control over what users could edit, the ability to rollback all the user changes, and control who has access to what, all controlled by the Contribute Publishing Server (a.k.a. CPS).

Do NOT download the Trial version of CPS. You can't get a license out of Adobe for it, and Adobe couldn't find the media (the CD, or an installer for the full, non-trial version) when we tried to get it.

Overall, I liked Contribute, until the 30 day trial ran out and I found out, after almost $1,000 was spent on licenses, that Adobe still sells it but doesn't support it. The third-party sales rep apologized, complained to Adobe that they sell an expensive product they don't support, and refunded the money.

Feel free to try the trial of Contribute, but stay away from the publishing server. If you like it, buy it, but don't expect any support from Adobe. Apparently this is a product that was lost somewhere in the transition of Adobe's Macromedia takeover.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Solution for Preventing Non-Designers from Breaking a Website!, July 3, 2006

By	Wildness (Colorado Plateau) - See all my reviews

If you design website with Dreamweaver (works with non-Dreamweaver sites, but without Dreamweaver's integrated templates capability that locks portions of the page) that others will need to edit...AND you don't want them to break it, then Contribute is the product for you!

Allows you set user permissions that control what a user can edit, how they can edit a page, how they (and if they) can add images, whether they can publish or their draft needs reviewed, and saves rollback copies so any damage can be undone!

The user interface is easy and user-friendly - the user browses the site they wish to edit (and have permission to do so) and then edits the page. Simple.

This works best for the editor of a site created and maintained by Dreamweaver. And, it will make every Dreamweaver designer happier, healthier, and allow for the opportunity to spend your time making money designing a new site as opposed to the drudgery of continually editing an old site.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars okay but needs improvement, January 9, 2007

By	tedz "tedz" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews

I've been using Contribute 3 Win/Mac for four months now to update my website.
I have three complaints:
1. Updating with Contribute 3 is very slow because of waiting while going back and forth between the 'Edit' and 'Publish' modes - even though I have hi-speed cable and a 1GHz G4 Mac.
2. Line spacing in Edit mode does not agree with spacing when I go to Publish mode. So has to be done over by trial and error, usually several times as it's erratic and hard to outguess. And all this is dragged out by item 1 above.
3. Contribute does not allow viewing and editing Source Code. Hard to understand why they left this out as it's an integral part of web editing.