Working with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
Adobe® Contribute® CS4 software enables content authors to post and publish content to HTML websites created with any web design software. Importantly, Contribute CS4 offers tight integration with Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4 software and includes enhanced rendering capability to ensure that pages displayed in Contribute look exactly the same as pages created in Dreamweaver.
Dreamweaver and Contribute comparison
Dreamweaver and Contribute focus on different aspects of web publishing and work seamlessly together to empower technical and nontechnical users to collaborate more effectively than ever.
Building websites
Dreamweaver is the professional Adobe solution for designing and developing websites. It offers extensive HTML code editing, application development, and site management capabilities; powerful design tools for working with CSS and creating page templates; and a broad array of features for making sitewide updates.
Maintaining websites
Contribute CS4 enables nontechnical users to easily maintain and update web content. Powerful controls enable site administrators to define who can publish and who is limited to editing pages for review and approval by others. Business users and subject-matter experts can update web content without compromising site integrity or application functionality.
Advantages of using Contribute with Dreamweaver
Powered by the same market-leading technology as Dreamweaver CS4, Contribute CS4 is the professional tool for keeping web content current and relevant. Developers can continue to use Dreamweaver to streamline site architecture management, page template development, graphics creation, application logic coding, and complete website assembly.
Contribute integrates closely with Dreamweaver CS4
Accurate rendering of Dreamweaver pages
Contribute CS4 uses the same rendering engine as Dreamweaver CS4 software. As a result, the WYSWYG editing interface in Contribute renders pages exactly as they were designed in Dreamweaver.
Full support for Dreamweaver CSS
Contribute leverages the Dreamweaver CSS rendering engine so that CSS-based layouts and designs are displayed accurately.
Shared assets
Users can insert stock images including graphics, HTML snippets, FLV files, and Dreamweaver Library items from a common interface.
Control content with Dreamweaver templates
Contribute automatically adheres to Dreamweaver templates for detailed control over page updates.
Efficient group collaboration
Dreamweaver professionals and Contribute users can safely work together on the same website since the products share a check-in/check-out system that protects against accidental overwrites.
Shared Contribute versioning system
Dreamweaver and Contribute use the same simple versioning, page lockout, and page rollback system.
Integrated administration of Contribute sites
Site administrators can use all the site administration features available in Contribute directly within Dreamweaver, enabling administrators to change any setting without leaving their preferred tool.
Contribute connection keys
Users can send encrypted connection keys to content contributors directly from Dreamweaver.
