[WEB4LIB] RE: WebTribute

[Ross Singer]

Lisa,

I wrote this while I was web coordinator at Emory's main library and the 
policy there was to basically let anyone who wanted to edit the site's 
content.  This gave us a pool of about 100 possible, trained content 
editors, of which about 30-40 were actually active.

When I became coordinator, the means for publishing content was via 
Dreamweaver 4 or MX.  This was extremely problematic and simple DW 
maintenance comprised a vast majority of my time.  I really wanted to 
move to something simpler and designed solely for content editing, not 
web design, but was not yet ready to commit to a full blown CMS.

I liked the functionality of Contribute and thought it was basically 
what we wanted, but to buy 100 licenses seemed prohibitively expensive.  
Also, while we were testing Contribute, it was painfully slow - I am not 
sure if this was a problem with Contribute or SMB networking or what, 
but it was slow.  Hence, I spent about 3 weeks building WebTribute.

After I left Emory, I think they decided to go with Contribute after all 
(since the sole means of support for WebTribute was no longer working 
for them), so here it is, for hopefully somebody to use.

So, there's the motivation.

-Ross.

Pons, Lisa (ponslm) wrote:

> Interesting. What led you to develop it, over Contribute?
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>Lisa
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ross Singer
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Sent: 9/7/2004 6:22 PM
>Subject: [WEB4LIB] WebTribute
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>As promised, I have uploaded WebTribute.
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>You may access it at:
>http://webtribute.sourceforge.net/
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>There's basically no documentation (yet), outside of how to install it.
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>Good luck,
>-Ross.
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