Design a site for Contribute users

I recently implemented a design for an elementary school
website wherein all faculty members have to do to post an
online newsletter is to create it with Dreamweaver and upload it
to the site. They do not have to link it to other documents, since
that is done automatically by the site scripting machinery.

The adantage is that they can use Dreamweaver itself as a word
processor. We tried Contribute and found it restrictive and
simplistic. With Contribute, a webmaster still has to be closely
involved in order to generate base documents. We want to run
with no one but the teachers themselves responsible for content.

Once the teacher knows how to use Dreamweaver as a word
(web) processor, then all they need to do is save their
documents to the server and let the scripting handle the rest.
Admittedly, learning the basics of Dreamweaver is a non-trivial
job, but then the same is true for MS Word.

We've used Contribute for a number of Websites and it's excellent for allowing non-technical users to make changes to a website without breaking it. As a lightweight content management system, it's great.

I recently bought two licenses of Contribute to test in our company. I manage our intranet, extranet and internet presence. I have approximately 15 - 20 web editors who contribute to the content. Several have never fully understood html, so I hoped Contribute would be the answer to their dilemma. Unfortunately, it isn't. One area the software is lacking in is the ability to edit values in forms. Many of the current editors want the ability to open a form, make a few changes to the form fields, then publish. This is not possible in Contribute. I do hope they look into this for future versions.