Hi James
Oddly, someone asked a similar question today in LinkedIn.
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/web-development/TCH_WDD/355859-15475515
Contribute is not about content management and you should never let
the client specify the technology, that's YOUR job The technology you
decide to deploy should be a result of having defined the strategy and
scope of a project and identified the resources for ongoing content
and support.
It may be possible to use PHP for what you say, but maybe you wan to
look at SHTML instead for server side scripting. I understand
Dreamweaver is better with PHP than it used to be but it can easily go
pear shaped if the client is not either severely restricted or
understands HTML well.
Expectations may be shattered if the client has seen a sales pitch of
Adobe Contribute and thinks they can do what they like with a page.
Then they'll want the template modified when they can't then the IA
gets messed up, then the nav needs changing, then they don't realise
it's better to add news rather than replace it (for SEO) an the meta
no longer gels with the page content....
I could go on....
Contribute is not about content management as much as it is about
allowing an in-house web team to share tasks without a "proper" CMS
deployed. Thus your coder can code and the content writer can write
but it can be all wrapped within a team. This is, frankly, Web 1.0,
and your time and their money is better served by getting a simple CMS
deployed that meets with their scope and strategy and will be easier
to manage for everyone, client included.
joe
On 02/11/2008, at 12:53 AM, James Farrell wrote:
Hi Guys,
A client wants to use Adobe Contribute for content management.
Is there any point writing standards complient code or will
contribute butcher the code anyway?
Can I use php at all with contribute? Would love to be able to
include html files using php to avoid having to change loads of
pages everytime navigation changes etc.
James
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