Adobe Contribute Question

[optimalwebsite]

I'm reprogramming and recoding a website which has client access with Contribute.

My question is do I need to do anything in the HTML to allow them to continue to edit the website? It currently has a lot of tables and an image menu, instead of a text menu and CSS based design which I'd prefer for SEO.

How exactly does Adobe Contribute allow the client to update their website?

Warm Regards,


Joel

[optimalwebsite]

**bump** anyone?

[CarolSLC]

Will the client just be editing text, or do you think they would want to change the layout of the pages or the menu items? If just changing text, I'd think they'd be fine.

Contribute will pull the tables in - you'll see dotted lines for the cell borders. If they are just modifying text, they will just type over the text that is there. If they need to add or remove table rows, it gets more tricky but can be done.

I've never used Contribute to replace images, so don't know about your menu items. I don't think there's anything magical in Contribute to allow them to easily do that. They'd have to take an existing image and an image program to make a similar menu item with different text on it, then upload that.

From the Adobe site, you can download a free trial of Contribute and test it out for yourself to see how it'd work with the site. I have had a problem loading the trial on an older machine, even though it met the Adobe minimum specs however.

good luck.

[chowell]

Contribute works best when templates are used and "Editable Regions". We have used it for several years and it allows the client to easily update the content of their website.

The Editable Regions are important, because it helps you to only allow editing access to the parts of the page the client would need to change most frequently - and it keeps them from screwing up the rest of the page by blocking access.

[CarolSLC]

How do you set something up as an "editable region"? Is that done in Contribute? I have done templates with the header, footer, and left nav column as include files, and then only the content area of the page is pulled into Contribute, so that's all they can change. But I've never done anything specifically to block content from a user. I can see how that would be useful.