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As you can see, Wally the Webmaster, Pat the Programmer, and Dave the Developer can continue to use Dreamweaver to publish content onto


the company's website. Ada the Admin Assistant, Cammy the Content Manager, and Tina the Tech Writer, however, can use Contribute because their roles are limited to simple text-based changes and edits. With that said, let's install Contribute and then walk through the process of deciding who within our organization needs Contribute. Installing Contribute For the most part, installing Contribute is just as easy, if not easier, than installing Dreamweaver. The tougher task initially, is deciding who within the organization needs it. As a rule of thumb, consider the circumstances outlined in Table 13.1. Table 13.1. Deciding Who Needs Dreamweaver, Contribute, or Both User Purpose Application(s) Wally Site administrator. Makes changes to all pages in the website and also delegates Contribute roles. Dreamweaver and Contribute Pat and Dave Developer and programmer for the website. They need full access to all pages in the site. Dreamweaver only Tina, Cammy, and Ada On occasion, these people make simple changes to specific pages on the website. Contribute only   Knowing what we know now about the users and contributors of our site, we come to the conclusion that Wally, Tina, Cammy, and Ada need Contribute installed on their computers. You might be wondering why Wally needs Contribute installed if he'll be using Dreamweaver for making changes on the website. Dreamweaver allows you to administer and delegate users and roles directly from the Site Definition dialog, but for this functionality to work, Contribute must be installed along with Dreamweaver. With that said, let's walk through the process of installing Contribute on Tina's, Cammy's, Ada's, and your (Wally's) computer: 1. If you haven't purchased a copy of Contribute and would like to try it out, you can download a 30-day evaluation version from Macromedia's website at http://www.macromedia.com/downloads.   2. Assuming that you've downloaded the trial software, double-click the ZIP file to extract the Contribute3.msi file. 3. Double-click the MSI file to begin the installation. 4. When the Welcome screen appears, click Next. 5. Accept the user license agreement and click Next. 6. Choose the folder in which you want Contribute to be installed and click Next. 7. Choose options for creating desktop and QuickLaunch shortcuts and also set accessibility for yourself and any other users of your computer and click Next. 8. In the Confirmation screen, click Install to proceed with the installation. 9. When the installation completes, disable the Launch Macromedia Contribute 3 check box (unless you want to open it and poke around before moving forward) and click Finish. That's all there is to it! Of course, in our scenario, we'd want to repeat these steps for every Contribute user. Because we're assuming the role of Wally the webmaster for this chapter, we're set to go.           Administrating Contribute-Enabled Sites in Dreamweaver Again, because we're assuming the role of Wally the webmaster, our next step is to enable Contribute compatibility for our Dorknozzle website. When that's done,