Purchased a great product for

Purchased a great product for work, Contribute 2 by Macromedia. This tool gives our web site owners the ability to manage content. What is really sweet is that we can control what they are allowed to edit. In general, they have control of the site text. It took just one little demo session to get our first owner up and running. It’s so great not having to fix those little things like contact names and phone numbers.

We have a mixture of both internal and external sites with architecture of ASP.NET and ASP. It can’t handle Perl CGI sites.

This product does not work on my Mac…. big disappointment. It loaded fine. Auto connected to my .Mac web site. Connected to my web sites via FTP no problem. However, both of my sites are CGI-Perl. With the exception of a few html pages nothing was editable through Contribute. The main page, which was editable, would not render properly in the edit mode. That is to say it only displayed the left side of the page. The balance was black on black. One big problem was that its window would slide off the screen when attempting to move the page.

Overall, this solves a problem at work ,,,, but has limited applicability once you move away from ASP, HTML, and .NET sites.