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November 7, 2004
Working on Jennandlucien.net
I have been updating our (Lucien and mine) website so that it actually looks like someone cares about the website.
As a .mac member, I got a discount on Macromedia's Contribute, so I decided to try it out. It's a nice program. It allows me to basically place graphics and pick colors that I like without needing to know HTML, which is a big plus. Though, I am now having issues with it's limitations. I would like each page on the site to have the same basic look. Looking at the "New Page" menu, it has a folder for templates. That sounds great, I can create a template and base on the new pages on that template. Sounds good, right? Well, not so quick, after looking through the menus and the help, it looks like you can only save Templates in Dreamweaver and then use them in Contribute. That means I need to buy a $400 program to enhance the features in the $99 program. I am really not too happy about that.
One of the nice features of Contribute is the fact that it does contain a bunch of templates that are ready to use and it really does make nice web-pages.
I would recommend Contribute for basic users, who don't really have much computer experience. I wouldn't recommend the program for advance users who what a lot of flexibility and want more control over the look of the pages.
Posted by crumrine at November 7, 2004 12:27 PM
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Thanks for your comments! Could you talk a bit more about how you'd like to see Contribute allow you to create templates? I'm the lead designer on the Contribute engineering team, and we're always interested in hearing feature requests from customers. Blog your thoughts, and include Macromedia Contribute in the content so that my dynamic blog searches picks it up.
Posted by: deeje at December 17, 2004 9:46 AM
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