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Adobe Contribute CS4
Adobe Contribute CS4

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From: Adobe
Category: Software

List Price: $199.00
Buy New: $196.99
You Save: $2.01 (1%)



New (18) Used (2) from $180.00

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 1 reviews
Sales Rank: 403

Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.7 x 1.9

MPN: 65015459
Model: 65015459
UPC: 883919159980
EAN: 0883919159980
ASIN: B001EUCSXW

Release Date: October 27, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Features:
  • Update and add content within the context of a web page
  • Edit pages directly in your web browser without having to open another application
  • Set roles and responsibilities and enforce a review and approval process
  • Establish workflow processes to collaboratively author, review, and publish content
  • Easily edit advanced layout components--Contribute CS4 works with Dreamweaver templates and allows you to design the site while letting content contributors add to it without risk

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Collaboratively author, review, and publish web content while maintaining site integrity ? without learning HTML, all with Adobe Contribute CS4.

Content expiration notification - Set the expiration value for a single Contribute page or multiple pages, and Contribute will notify the designated content contributors when the expiration date nears Dynamic website editing - Add content to dynamic websites powered by Movable Type, TypePad, or WordPress with Contribute CS4 Rich media support - Drag and drop your images, FLV and SWF files, or PDF documents into your Contribute pages. Contribute automatically uploads the dependent files to the web server when the pages are published in administrator-selected locations Auto-Save - enables you to specify how frequently updated drafts are saved. Content remains in draft format until the review and publish process is initiated Visual blog configuration - Avoid editing the BlogHub.csi file manually in a text editor to achieve specific goals such as allowing images wider than 150 pixels. All such preferences are accessed visually Site root-relative links - Gain a finer degree of control over code. Website administrators can quickly specify whether links to pages or other elements are written as document-relative or site root-relative links


Amazon.com Product Description
Adobe Contribute CS4 software enables users to collaboratively author, review, and publish web content while maintaining site integrityNwithout learning HTML. Administrators can define and enforce individual workflows for content in different website sections and enable users to easily edit content directly in their browsers. Tight integration with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 software helps ensure consistent site design.

Simplify web content management

True WYSIWYG web authoring
Update and add content within the context of a web page. Text is incorporated into the design while the layout and CSS styles persist. Work in a rendered HTML environment or directly in the browser.

In-browser editing
Edit pages directly in your web browser without having to open another application. The Contribute CS4 in-browser editor supports most browsers, including Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 6 and 7.

Website administration
Set roles and responsibilities and enforce a review and approval process. Fine-grained permissions enable administrators to define who can edit and who can publish content.

Collaborative publishing
Establish workflow processes to collaboratively author, review, and publish content. Define different review paths at the template level, whether a single approval for an internal web page or multiple sign-offs for a public page.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 compatibility
Easily edit advanced layout components. Contribute CS4 works with Dreamweaver templates and allows you to design the site while letting content contributors add to it without risk.

Clean XHTML file creation and editing
Input and style text, images, FLV and SWF files, or PDF documents, and Contribute CS4 outputs standards-compliant, valid XHTML code. All of the designer's code formatting in Dreamweaver is preserved during editing and publishing.

Unified web publishing
Post your updates from Contribute CS4 using any standard file transfer, web authoring, or blogging protocol, including FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, MetaWeblog, and Atom. Choose to publish from within Contribute or directly from Microsoft Office applications.

Rich media support
Easily drag and drop your images, FLV and SWF files, or PDF documents into your Contribute pages. Contribute automatically uploads the dependent files to the web server when the pages are published in administrator-selected locations.

Robust draft capabilities
Avoid losing your content changes due to a dropped Internet connection. Work offline and store your drafts locally. For quick revisions, go to the Drafts panel and reopen your file with a single click.

Version Rollback feature
Use the Rollback feature to return to an earlier version of your web page. Contribute site administrators determine the number of available rollbacks (up to 99) and assign rollback permissions to fit your organization's needs.


Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Few compelling new features   November 22, 2008
 5 out of 5 found this review helpful

Contribute 4 comes with the Adobe Web Suite so I didn't really pay for it. That's good because I don't think it really offers anything compelling enough to justify upgrading from CS 3. And it really doesn't offer enough more to justify the $50 price hike for the full version.

The interface has changed a lot, making Contribute look more like other Adobe apps. With Dreamweaver and Photoshop I didn't find that to be a problem. With Contribute I prefer the old layout and see no advantage in changing to change.

There is a new collaboration feature that my be useful for teams who work on a Contribute site. Working with, at most, one other person on a site with Contribute, I can't tell how useful that would be. And most larger organizations I have worked with use real content management systems and have no use for Contribute, so I can't see Adobe selling a lot of copies on this new feature.

Contribute promises a feature that may be compelling for some, the ability to add a Contribute toolbar to Firefox that lets people edit pages right in the browser. Unfortunately, that doesn't yet work with version 3 of Firefox and I don't have a copy of version 2 around to test with. But since you can download SeaMonkey for free and get the same rendering engine as Firefox, as well as the ability use the same program for browsing and for editing, I don't see this as worth $200.

Since the the CS 4 version of Dreamweaver has been both a bit faster and more stable than CS 3, I'd hoped that Contribute would be too, but I can't tell any difference. It's still slow to load, slow to update pages, and crashes occasionally. I once asked an Adobe rep about this and he said it was because the pages had to upload to the server. I can open web pages in a text browser via my ftp client and have saved changes effected almost instantly, so I'm not quite convinced that the glacial speed of Contribute can be totally justified by that explanation.

Still, Contribute does work and does allow people to update websites, add pages, images and media to their websites without much technical knowledge. So it does have value. If you need a new copy of Contribute this will do the job. That said, this update isn't at all compelling. If you have CS 3, you can safely pass this version. If, like me, you got it as part of the new CS 4 suite then it's no worse.


 
   
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