http://designorati.com/articles/t1/web-design/1729/review-contribute-cs4.php A 360-Degree View of the Creative World Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:57:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://designorati.com/articles/t1/web-design/1729/review-contribute-cs4.php/comment-page-1#comment-199292 Marsh Thu, 21 May 2009 20:26:30 +0000 http://designorati.com/articles/t1/web-design/1729/review-contribute-cs4.php#comment-199292 Let's start with who is most likely to benefit from a CMS ... it is a non-technical (probably a techna-phobe) who just wants to update their website or web section. The problem with the vast majority of home grown developer apps are two fold: first, the vast majority of the developers are very weak at creating user friendly interfaces (adobes been at it for awhile). Secondly, support. I have supported many small business websites and have used some low cost cms applications and trying to teach the techniphobe to use them is a far bigger challenge than designing a site. Though I am not a big contribute user, I would definately chose it over a low dollar cms sytems. Let’s start with who is most likely to benefit from a CMS … it is a non-technical (probably a techna-phobe) who just wants to update their website or web section. The problem with the vast majority of home grown developer apps are two fold: first, the vast majority of the developers are very weak at creating user friendly interfaces (adobes been at it for awhile). Secondly, support. I have supported many small business websites and have used some low cost cms applications and trying to teach the techniphobe to use them is a far bigger challenge than designing a site. Though I am not a big contribute user, I would definately chose it over a low dollar cms sytems.

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