New Macromedia tool allows anyone to publish web content

The product brings ease and simplicity to the Internet by putting the power of web publishing into the hands of non-technical users, while also providing sufficient control for the professionals who manage websites.

Macromedia Contribute works with any HTML website, including those coded by hand or created with tools like Macromedia Dreamweaver MX or Microsoft FrontPage.

To download a technology preview today, go to
http://www.macromedia.com/go/contribute

"Macromedia Contribute represents a new product vision for Macromedia that reaches a whole new class of users," says Ivan Shamley, director at DDS, a local Macromedia distributor. "Contribute levels the playing field for web content contribution, and makes waiting for an overburdened Webmaster to make site updates a thing of the past."

"This product enables users to easily publish content to the web, and protects them from inadvertent mistakes. The product also ensures that web professionals who build the sites retain complete control over the site style, layout, and code standards," says Shamley.

Macromedia Contribute allows web developers to delegate web content maintenance while protecting the site design, code, and functionality. Contribute also maintains a living history of page changes so users can easily roll back changes and switch between different versions of a page. In addition, the quality of the code is guaranteed because Contribute is built on the core HTML authoring engine of Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, the preferred choice of more than 90 percent of web professionals.

Macromedia Contribute allows users to update web content in three simple steps. Users browse to the web page they want to update, edit the page, and publish their updated page to the live site. It also works with existing network security methods, and does not require any special servers or technology.

Macromedia Contribute will be available for Windows in December and Mac OS X early in 2003 with introductory pricing at R1299.00.