Contribute works with your existing website, whether it's an intranet or a public website. It often takes a team of people to get a website up and running and to keep the content current.

The team may include the following people:

Web developers

create the website. The web developer (or design team) uses a website-creation application, such as Adobe Dreamweaver, to build the website. This person is responsible for planning, designing, developing, testing, and publishing the website. For some websites, the developer might use templates to maintain a consistent look and feel across the website.

Dreamweaver web developers should see Dreamweaver Help for more information.

Contribute users

maintain the website. Contribute users are the marketers, managers, educators, students, small business owners, administrative assistants, project managers, and so on, who use Contribute to keep their websites up-to-date. The user needs no experience in HTML or web design. Because Contribute works like a word processor, the user experience is intuitive and familiar. Users can add or update text, images, tables, links, and Microsoft Word and Excel documents.

This help system is designed for Contribute users.

Contribute administrators

set up Contribute users and help them use Contribute to maintain the website. The Contribute administrator is also responsible for setting folder and user permissions, which determine who can edit website content and what contents they can edit. Only one Contribute administrator can be designated for each website in Contribute. However, more than one person can administer the website if the Contribute administrator shares the administration password for the website.