[DesDev] Comment adding knackered?

[Martin Burns]

I've been trying to add the following comment to the MM Contribute
article, but it will only submit if it's missing the last 2 words (d'oh):

<p>
Alex, you're right. Contribute is not a CMS, but then again, I don't think
Macromedia would claim that it is (actually, <a
href="http://webforums.macromedia.com/contribute/messageview.cfm?catid=290&threadid=490351"
target="_new" title="opens in a new window">they explicitly don't</a>).
</p>
<p>
However, <em>some</em> of the reasons why you'd consider a CMS - in
particular distributed publishing by non-web skilled staff - are addressed
by Contribute.
</p>
<p>
If you lock down the User permissions to style-based formatting (rather
than allowing hard-coding font sizing and colours), enforce the
accessibility options and lock down the editable regions of templates then
you strongly mitigate the risk of users wanting to play designer and
breaking the site.
</p>
<p>
It does what it does, it does it well (I'm particularly impressed with the
Word/Excel integration), and the price point is right - assuming of course
that non-US customers aren't discriminated against. If Macromedia have
thought through integration with a range of standard CMSs and volume
licensing, I would expect to see it popping up in increasing numbers of
enterprise installations.
</p>


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