[Web4lib] CMS or something else?

[Adam Brin]

Tyson,
	The last time I used contribute, you could specify specific
stylesheets that people could see, that way, the administrative styles
were hidden, but the ones we wanted to use were visible. see:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/contribute/articles/css_03.html

- adam

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Tyson Tate wrote:

> Major downside to Contribute: You have to prefix ALL CSS selector
> names that you don't want shown to content writers with "mmhide-".
> That means that most of your class and ids will end up being something
> like mmhide-booktitle, etc.
>
> I have 2,000 lines of CSS in our redesigned site. Short answer, coming
> from a web developer: I banish Contribute from the land!
>
> (And, not to mention, we have enough troubles with Dreamweaver. The
> piece of junk! *grumble* ;-)
>
> -Tyson
>
> On 9/1/06, McHale, Nina <nina.mchale at cudenver.edu> wrote:
> > Contribute--while it's not a full-blown CMS, depending on your
> > definition of the word--does this. It's WYSIWYG; in fact, no code view
> > is even available, and the user interface looks more like MS Word than
> > Dreamweaver. Web authors create new files based on HTML templates that
> > the webmaster creates beforehand in Dreamweaver. So, once the template
> > is there, authors can grab the template, create a new file from it, put
> > in their content without seeing a single tag, and publish with no extra
> > markup required by yours truly. It still requires me to come up with the
> > templates, obviously, but I don't have to touch every file that goes out
> > there. Other editorial checks are in place for content; for example, the
> > instruction coordinator has to approve content on any new subject
> > guides. But, it never has to come to me.
> >
> > Nina
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