Welcome To Macromedia Contribute; Website Development And Maintenance Overview - MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE-USING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual

Welcome to Macromedia Contribute

Macromedia Contribute enables users to easily create and edit web pages on existing websites.
Whether you're the one using Contribute to edit web pages or the one managing the website, you'll
find Contribute a very useful tool for browsing, editing, and publishing content to a website.
The chapter contains the following sections:
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"Website development and maintenance overview" on page 13
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"The Contribute workflow" on page 14
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"Learning Macromedia Contribute" on page 14

Website development and maintenance overview

Contribute works with your existing website, whether it's an intranet or a public website. It often
takes a team of people to get a website up and running and to keep the content current.
These are the people you'll interact with when you use Contribute:
Web developers
application, such as Macromedia Dreamweaver, to build the website. The designer is responsible
for website planning, design, development, testing, and publishing. For some websites, the
designer might use templates to maintain a consistent look and feel across the website.
Dreamweaver web developers should see Dreamweaver Help for more information.
Contribute users
students, small business owners, administrative assistants and project managers, and so on, who
use Macromedia Contribute to keep their websites up-to-date. The user needs no experience in
HTML or web design. Contribute works like a word processor, so it should be familiar to users.
Users can add or update text, images, tables, links, and Microsoft Word and Excel documents.
This guide is designed for Contribute users.
Contribute website administrator
maintain the website. The administrator is also responsible for determining which users can edit what
content on the website, by setting folder and user permissions. There can be only one website
administrator named for each website in Contribute. However, more than one person can administer
the website if the website administrator shares the administration password for the website.
Contribute website administrators should see "Administering Contribute" for more information.
create the website. This person (or design team) uses a website creation
maintain the website. These are the marketers and managers, educators and
sets up Contribute users and assists them in using Contribute to
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