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The Bargain Nexus - Adobe Contribute CS4
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List Price: $199.00
Our Price: $196.99
Your Save: $ 2.01 ( 1% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Adobe
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Adobe
EAN: 0883919159980
Feature: Update and add content within the context of a web page
Format: DVD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Adobe
Manufacturer: Adobe
Model: 65015459
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Adobe
Release Date: 2008-10-27
Studio: Adobe
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Features
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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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Customer Rating:
Summary: Few compelling new features
Comment: 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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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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