Thanks everyone

NYColt — Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:07:05 +0000

Thanks for all your help everyone.

I have pretty much decided on the macromedia solution. It does everything I need and more from the administrative end. I also like WebEditPro, very similiar and a great price.

Thanks again. I am going to post a new thread now for a database solution any help on that would be awesome.

NYColt

mjames — Sat, 14 Dec 2002 19:07:50 +0000

How about this? http://www.editize.com

Megan — Sat, 07 Dec 2002 17:36:40 +0000

I just downloaded the trial version. Seems that you don't really have to have created the site in DW. You can still lock certain parts of the page by using SSI's. It seems that you do have to have the DW plug-in to control standards - I think, anyway. I was hoping that the doctype would help control what they can and cannot do, but alas, it seems that font tags are allowable regardless. It does import the stylesheet and makes all your classes available.

Powers are very basic. They can add an image or a table, change the font styling, change text of course, insert a Word or Excel document, or flash.

It's a pretty good program. I just wish there was a better way to force it to author to the standards you've defined. For the most part I would trust clients not to screw things up too much with this.

I guess one of the problems with font tags is that it's very easy for regular people to understand them - harder to make them learn to use styles. The funny thing here is that it lets you change the text colour and the text background colour - the text colour is done with font tags, but the background is done with an inline style!

taff — Sat, 07 Dec 2002 12:37:58 +0000

$99 for a CMS? That *is* cheap, as long as it works as promised. Does it require that the site be made in DW? Bah - hadn't considered that.

The Webmistress — Sat, 07 Dec 2002 10:14:37 +0000

Yeah, I was just reading the latest Macromedia newsletter about Contribute and it does sound good, but as you say you need DW and the two aren't exactly cheap!

Megan — Sat, 07 Dec 2002 04:09:42 +0000

I was going to suggest that. It's not all that cheap though - $99, plus you need to have Dreamweaver to administer the site I think. From what I understand, anyway. You would set up the site in Dreamweaver, with the Contribute plugin to set things up and control what they can do etc. Then the client can edit the site in Contribute. There's a good review at Webmonkey, and also at Sitepoint, so you could check those out if you're interested.

taff — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 23:50:05 +0000

Here ya go:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/contribute/

Been meaning to download the demo and give it a whirl.

NYColt — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 21:03:47 +0000

Hi Thanks for your time.

I am not familiar with PHP. Never worked with it.
Not sure what Macromedia app you mean?

taff — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 20:46:35 +0000

What about the new Macromedia app? I've yet to try it and the name escapes me.

Busy — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 20:44:19 +0000

I've seen one the last few days (think it was at zend.com) but was a little pricey and worked on PHP and MySQl database.

Can you use PHP? probably wouldn't be to hard to make one, security could be an issue thou, but you can easily put in limits and controls