Hey Steph (and everyone else), thanks!

I just have one or two more questions to ask you to make sure I understand
everything as some of the responses have been a little confusing - at least
as far as my specific requirements go.

Mainly, what I need to know is this:
It sounds to me like you have Contribute 2 installed on your machine and by
doing so, this allows your clients to access their sites. THEY don't have
Contribute 2 installed on THEIR machines but they access their sites via
Contribute. Is this how Contribute works?

Also, I'm using DWMX (NOT 2004) on a Mac and my clients would also be using
a Mac as well. As far as I could tell from the Flash demo on Macromedia's
site, everything is pretty much done via e-mail notification and FTP
software. Am I off base with that assumption?

Of course, I'll probably understand all of this a lot better if I just
download the 30-day free trial (and I still might do that) but the boss
wanted to meet with me to discuss "this Contribute thing" so I wanted to and
gather as much initial info as I could prior to that meeting and THEN decide
of the 30 day download was for us.

-Chris


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> on 10/13/03 3:58 PM, Chris Flick at chris.flick@drcs.com profoundly spewed
> forth their very articulate thoughts:
>
>> How easy is it to pick up and learn Contribute 2?
>
> I have a client that just started on it last week and wrote me today saying
> "It really is easy"... She's just doing basic text changes and such....
>>
>> What do I need to do/learn/prepare for in order to "lock down" certain parts
>> of a web page so my client doesn't go "Front page" on my butt and cause me
>> more trouble going back behind them correcting all of their "experiments"?
>
> Lock down images. (Set the allowed maximum to something under 100k or
> they'll go crazy with it... I had a client that was complaining that I
> "locked her out" and when I made her check the size of the image, it was
> 850kb... Almost a MB!!)
>
> If you use templates that will lock them out of the areas like navigation...
>
> If not, use the setting there to lock them out of forms and such....
>
> I've found it better not to let them create pages using a blank page... I
> have a site I'm shortly going to have to remove from my portfolio because
> she's made a terrible mess! (Partly my fault for not locking her down
> enough) Force them to use the template if there's one to be used.
>
> If you're using CSS, lock them out of fonts or they'll "get creative" and
> make everything pretty colors... Ooooohhhh...
>
> Even if you do lock them down into only CSS, don't be surprised that when
> they discover their H1 is blue and their H2 is green that the start using
> them for links and alternating them to be pretty... Ooooohhhh... :P
>
> Can you see what I'm dealing with? I'm enjoying the clients that want to use
> it to change text.. The ones that decide the can add to and build their
> sites with it are still kind of making a mess (though not as bad as if they
> were making the whole site themselves)... I'm still learning to lock more
> down... And I think I'll put a picture of the original site in my portfolio
> since I never know what this one will look like. :P
>
> The only other thing I hope MM will fix for the next iteration is for me to
> be able to specify WHERE the images and such are stored... Right now it
> automatically puts them on the same level as the page... Which can get to be
> a mess.
>
> Overall, it's a pretty good and handy tool though... :)
>
> Stephanie Sullivan
>
> Contributing Author .: "Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Magic" :. New Riders
> CommunityMX Team Member :: http://www.communitymx.com
> Technical Editor .: "DreamweaverMX Killer Tips" :. New Riders
> VioletSky Design :: http://www.violetsky.net
>
> "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research , would
> it?"-- Albert Einstein


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