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Website development and maintenance overview

Contribute works with your existing website, whether it’s an intranet or a public website. It often takes a team of people to get a website up and running and to keep the content current.

The team may include the following people:

Web developers create the website. The web developer (or design team) uses a website-creation application, such as Macromedia Dreamweaver, to build the website. This person is responsible for planning, designing, developing, testing, and publishing the website. For some websites, the developer might use templates to maintain a consistent look and feel across the website.

Dreamweaver web developers should see Dreamweaver Help for more information.

Contribute users maintain the website. These are the marketers, managers, educators, students, small business owners, administrative assistants, project managers, and so on, who use Macromedia Contribute to keep their websites up to date. The user needs no experience in HTML or web design. Because Contribute works like a word processor, the user experience is intuitive and familiar. Users can add or update text, images, tables, links, and Microsoft Word and Excel documents.

This help system is designed for Contribute users.

Contribute website administrators set up Contribute users and help them use Contribute to maintain the website. The administrator is also responsible for setting folder and user permissions, which determine which users can edit website content and what content they can edit. Only one website administrator can be designated for each website in Contribute. However, more than one person can administer the website if the website administrator shares the administration password for the website.

Contribute website administrators can find more information in Administering Contribute.


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