the market today, it's nearly impossible to impose some sort of standards-compliant method for creating and distributing content on the web. Of course, this task becomes much easier when working in corporate environments because organizations can set limitations on the web publishing software the employees in the company are allowed to use. Unfortunately, drawbacks still exist. If the software you decide to use is enterprise level (such as Dreamweaver), the need for training can still pose a major concern. Let's face it, while Dreamweaver is a powerful tool for performing any web-related task, it's definitely overkill for the administrative assistants who simply want to change a few words in an executive's web-based biography. On the other hand, if the software is easy to use and lightweight, the needs of the company might not get met because the functionality exposed might not be enough to effectively market a company's needs. This is where a program such as Macromedia Contribute plays a role. Contribute is a cheap, lightweight, yet powerful alternative to buying multiple expensive licenses of enterprise tools such as Dreamweaver for users who might not need something so powerful. Even better, Contribute solves the dilemma outlined in the previous chapter of accidentally overriding a previous user's work. As you'll see in this chapter, Contribute solves the content management needs of organizations by exposing a simple-to-use, efficient, and enterprise-level web publishing alternative. As you have done for the rest of the chapters in this book, you can work with the examples in this chapter by downloading the files from www.dreamweaverunleashed.com. You'll want to save the files for Chapter 13 in an easy-to-find location. I'll place mine in C:\Dorknozzle\Chapter13.             Content Management Using Contribute As a slimmed-down version of Dreamweaver, Contribute makes it easy for anyone to connect to a website, make edits to it, and then publish changes, all without having to learn more than they have to. If you know how to type a URL in the address bar of a browser, you can connect to a site using Contribute. If you can type and save text in a word processing document, you can make changes using Contribute; and if you know how to click a button (I'll assume that you are quite capable of doing that), you can publish edited content using Dreamweaver. With that said, Contribute is the perfect alternative for users in an organization whose primary roles aren't to create, edit, and publish web pages. For instance, in our organization, we might want to allow Cammy the Content Manager, Tina the Tech Writer, and Ada the Admin Assistant access to specific parts of our website only to make simple changes. For the organization, this has two benefits: The first and obvious one is that we don't have to buy three more licenses of Dreamweaver for users who otherwise might not use its full potential; instead we can buy three licenses of Contribute at a much cheaper price. Second, it allows you, the site administrator, to police who has access to which sites, what kind of access they have, and even be assured that pages you've created won't get accidentally overwritten by someone who has limited experience. As an example for how users in our fictitious Dorknozzle company publish content to our site, take a look at the diagram in Figure 13.1. Figure 13.1. Developers in our organization can continue to use Dreamweaver while those with limited web development experience use Contribute.