The Point of Contribute is to not "deprecate" the programmer/designer. The point is to allow PHBs to quickly edit things like "company contact information" or "news of the day" or "what's for lunch", primarily simple, doc-like sections of the website.
How many of us have sat there twiddling our thumbs waiting for a PHB to email us the text for something as simple as "company description"... Or, as simple as "item description". Me? I'd rather not have to burn 800 hours hitting refresh on my mail client while I wait for a paragraph of text to be added by some middle manager who had to hack it out through a legal department. Jesse Noller Macromedia Server Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Polickoski [mailto:rpolickoski@;isrd.com] > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 2:09 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Contribute and Studio Observation > > Not that I am trying to be exclusive or pompous, but when you > start allowing people who know nothing about web page design or > development to design or develop web pages, you get web pages > designed or developed by people who know nothing about the > process. I think it is a dangerous trend to try to make all > technology available to everyone. > > As a case and point: The professional secreatry is all but dead. > Because the word processor is now available to everyone, everyone > is expected to use it. Therefore, you now have middle executive > types spending twice as long to develop documents at 3 times the > cost with 1/2 the effectiveness because they really don't know how > to write. > > Specialization is not always a bad thing. Is it so horrible to > expect that if someone wants to use a technology, they actually > learn how to use it. > > Just my $0.02. > > Robert J. Polickoski > Senior Programmer, ISRD Inc. > (540) 842-6339 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AIM - RobertJFP > > > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:19:57 -0500 > > >> At the risk of being a trouble maker, I just have to make this > >> observation. > > > >> Now that we are allowed to talk about Contribute, I have to say > the > >> following: > > > > > >> We have been told that MM is doing away with Studio/Homesite > because they > >> do not want to have more than one editing application in their > application > >> portfolio. I accepted this despite Dreamweaver's obvious issues > that have > >> already been covered to death. So what is the next application > that MM > >> releases? Another web editing application. > > > >> I might be the only one that is irked by this, or maybe not, > but it seems > >> very odd to me. > > > >I wouldn't say that this new tool is in any way a replacement for > CF Studio > >.. It's a web-based tool to allow non-technical ( or less- > technical ) users > >to edit web content... So... it really in no way compares to > Studio. What > >they're after is the wider audience of general, non-programmer > business > >users, which is an entirely different market than Studio > targeted. So I > >don't think it really relates (at least not directly) to their > saying they > >didn't want to support more than one _traditional_ editing > application. You > >wouldn't buy Contribute for the folks in your office currently > using either > >CF Studio or Dreamweaver -- you'd buy Contribute for the folks in > your > >office currently sending email to the folks using CF Studio or > Dreamweaver > >to ask them to make changes. > > > >S. Isaac Dealey > >Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer > > > >www.turnkey.to > >954-776-0046 > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
