About Contribute
Contribute is a WYSIWYG editor for people who have no interest or need to learning HTML. It can connect directly to a blog to give you more editing features or to an existing website to manage the pages there. Contribute works best when working with a site created using <a href="http://webdesign.about.com/od/dreamweaverhowtos/ig/Create-a-Dreamweaver-Template/">Dreamweaver templates. Contribute also provides version control and authoring information that is not included in Dreamweaver. Contribute can also edit XML files and has built-in ecommerce functions to add simple shopping carts and stores to your website.
Target Market(s): Small business owners or Newcomers to Design
Review last updated: October 26, 2011.
Contribute Latest Review
Contribute Version: CS5
Score: 137
Percent: 41%
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Contribute Technical Details
Operating System(s): Windows Macintosh
Contribute Features
- WYSIWYG editor
- XML validator
- Page preview
- Alternate browser or OS preview
- Wireless device preview
- Save pages as HTML with DTD
- Write XHTML documents
- FTP or Site manager
- FTPs or Secure FTP
- Search and replace
- Edit images
- Connects to graphics software
- Multimedia functions
- Assistance with adding videos to websites
- Save Adobe AIR files
- Special character tools
- Can edit PHP, ASP, or JSP
- Edit XML and/or RSS
- Spell checking
- Writes to blogs
- Free templates
- Ecommerce tools
- Version control
- Support for teams editing the site (beyond version control)
- Free trial
- Upgrade discounts or freeware
- No limits on free or trial version
- No subscription fee required
- Photo gallery templates, but no automatic builder
What’s Missing from Contribute
- Text editor
- HTML validator
- Accessibility validator
- CSS validator
- Mobile scripts, functions, or links
- Create mobile web applications
- Package mobile apps for delivery on app stores
- Write HTML 5 documents
- Color coding
- Tag completion
- Extended search and replace (across multiple documents)
- Edit multiple files/tabbed file editing
- Ability to add video and audio using HTML5 with fallback options
- Save files as PDF
- Link checker
- Can edit JavaScript
- Helps with Ajax JSON, or jQuery pages
- Can edit CSS
- Additional CSS assistance
- CSS 3 properties and selectors
- CSS3 media queries tools built-in
- Dynamic page rendering and editing with server-side programming languages (PHP, JSP, ASP, CFM, etc.)
- Database connectivity
- Google sitemaps
- Save snippets of code
- Free scripts
- Form wizard
- Photo gallery builder
- SEO assistance built-in
- Captcha support or other methods of protecting forms
- Customizable or extendable
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Full price: $199.00 Upgrade price: $99.00
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