Chapter 34. Putting It All Together: Using Contribute to Manage Site Content


In this chapter

Creating a Contribute Site for Retro's Cycles 654

Setting Up Users Via Connection Keys 657

Browsing the Existing Layout 660

Adding Content to the Pages 662

Adding FlashPaper Documents 665

Troubleshooting 668

Best PracticesContribute Versus Content Management Systems 668

The last piece of the puzzle of building a site for Retro's Cycles is enabling the organization to manage certain aspects of their own site. As you saw in the Dreamweaver chapters, one way to do this would be to build the site using strictly database-driven content and then build an administrative section of the site to allow the client to log in and modify their page content.

Although this might make sense for a large company that has to maintain hundreds or thousands of pages, it's probably not worth the time and development cost to create an online content management system in this situation.

In the past, the only other alternative was to turn over the keys to the entire site and then, when an accident happened and an employee compromised the page layout, the page would have to be restored from backup or the site creator would have to be re-engaged to fix the problem.

Contribute provides a happy medium between these two extremes by providing a low-cost solution that enables you to enforce template-based structures to allow content to be updated while avoiding alterations of the page layout.



Special Edition Using Macromedia Studio 8
Special Edition Using Macromedia Studio 8
ISBN: 0789733854
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 337

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