Once in a blue moon a product comes along that completely changes the way we do business. Macromedia Contribute promises to do just that by making Web content creation and management accessible to the nontechnicalmasses. With Contribute on your machine and Macromedia Contribute Visual QuickStart Guide at your side, even the most nontechnologically-savvy among you will be building and editing Web pages in no time—without fear of compromising site integrity or messing up programmer-perfected code. Through straightforward language, task-based instruction, and an easy visual style that perfectly complements the product itself, veteran author Tom Negrino covers everything from making a site connection to working with images and links, using Dreamweaver templates, importing Microsoft Office documents, administering Contribute sites, customizing Contribute, and more. Your Web team will rejoice because they no longer have to waste time fixing typos, and you can rest easy knowing that content control is back where it belongs. Macromedia Contribute plus this Visual QuickStart guide equal success—no experience required!
Hi. I've been writing about Macs, other computers, and software since dinosaurs ruled the earth. OK, it's actually been since 1987. I began writing for the late MacGuide magazine, and started writing for Macworld shortly thereafter. I was a Contributing Editor at Macworld from 1990 through 2004, when they noticed that I hadn't written anything for them in the past year (I'd been really busy writing books). We parted on good terms, and I still write for them. Over the years, I've also written for most of the other Mac magazines.
I wrote my first solo book in 1994, and wrote my first commercially successful book in 1997, JavaScript for the Web, Visual QuickStart Guide, written with my then girlfriend and now wife, Dori Smith. That book has been in print ever since, though we've revised it many times to match the growth of JavaScript and other Web technologies. As you can see on this page, I've written or co-written many more books, notably on Dreamweaver, Apple's Keynote, and the Microsoft Office programs.
In late 1999, we moved from the Los Angeles area to the Sonoma wine country. It's a better place to live in general and was a fine place to raise our son. Now that he's grown, it's just us and our very excellent cat, Pixel, who always makes an appearance in each book.
