Setting Up A Contribute 3/Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Site

John Barclay, College of Education Webmaster and Research Programmer

 

October 28th 1:00 to 3:00pm  Room 16 College of Education

This workshop had 24 attendees.

Summary:

Contribute is a simplified sister to Macromedia Dreamweaver.  Contribute is designed to put content editing in the hands of less skilled authors and integrates well with Dreamweaver. The two can be used by authors of different skill levels to maintain the same site. 

The first half of the workshop will involve a walk through of setting up a Contribute 3/Dreamweaver MX 2004 site including:  configuring the web server, file permissions, dreamweaver site configation, contribute configuration, and contribute role configuration.  The second half will be hands on where participants edit web pages within the site using Contribute.

Intended Audience and Skill Level:

Web site administrators who wish to distribute content authoring. People who are considering implementing a Dreamweaver/Contribute site.

Deliverables:

  • a checklist of general steps to take
  • a jump start on implementing a Dreamweaver/Contribute site
  • some gotchas and deployment issues
  • a hands on demo of Contribute 3
  • resource list

Additional Resources:

Contribute Introductions:

Deployment/Installation Documents: