Testing Contribute CS3
Where do I start? Well… I guess I could post about the reason behind this post. I am currently evaluating Contribute CS3 as a potential tool for our non-technical staff to assist in maintaining our company we site.
So far I am amazed at the ease of use in Contribute CS3! I played around with it back when Contribute 2 was published (not CS2), and dismissed it as a nifty tool that didn’t have any real value to me at the time. However, it has significantly matured since, and am delighted to find that it recognized my custom install of this WordPress blog on my site with no manual configuratino necessary! (It also recognizes many other blog standards, like Blogger, etc.)
Further testing will determine how viable it is for a medium-sized business that wants to allow content publishing to its web site without necessarily involving the IT department all the time. This means establishing of roles, publishing rights, and chain of events in the publication process. Contribute Publishing Server should allow for all this (and more!).
I’ll break into that next.
[Update: 9/25/2007] At the moment I am still awaiting purchase of Adobe CS3 at my workplace to post more detailed testing results. This post was basically a use-case for connecting to my WordPress blog. Future write-ups will be more detailed.
February 1st, 2010 at 9:25 am
It is, however, worth mentioning that on Mac OSX you can NOT COPY AND PASTE anything from Word Documents into Contribute. Also this did not work with Openoffice - copy-pasting from Text Editor ist kind of retarded, because all formatting is lost. With this heavy disfunctionality Contribute looses one of it´s main selling arguments and is a piece of crippleware - as a tool for non-tec stuff it means “copy text from word docs to website” - not supporting this is like selling a car that has no wheels. Stupid, plain.
Just to make sure that this is not a mistake: yes, I am talking about ultra primitve Copy-and-Paste functionality, something you would maybe expect on some exotic Linux distro to make troubles - no, it is not working with Contribute on OSX - afaik also Dreamweaver has this deficit. *facepalm*