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CHAPTER 1
Overview
Macromedia Contribute is a website editor that lets people connect to departmental and other
websites so that they can update web page content. Administrative assistants, product managers,
human resource managers, and other people in an organization can use Contribute to update
their team website without having to contact a web team or other departmental resources.
For larger organizations, you can optionally use Macromedia Contribute Publishing Server (CPS)
with Contribute. CPS is a user management and publishing solution that lets Contribute
administrators manage large groups of Contribute users and monitor what those users do on the
website.
This chapter, intended for website administrators and IT professionals, gives you valuable
information you need before you deploy Contribute, and optionally CPS, within an organization.
It explains the Contribute user management models for using Contribute alone or with CPS,
shows scenarios for setting up Contribute in a variety of IT environments, and lists the people
and the various tasks involved in successfully deploying Contribute.
This chapter contains the following sections:
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“Understanding Contribute user management models” on page 5
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“Common website configurations” on page 9
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“Deployment roles and responsibilities” on page 17
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“Deployment tasks checklist” on page 18
Understanding Contribute user management models
User management lets you add and remove user access to websites and create user roles that
restrict editing privileges within a site. User management also provides a mechanism that lets users
easily connect to a website.
Contribute has two user management models: manual site connections using Contribute only
and managed site connections using Contribute plus the CPS User Directory service.
Manual connections
let you communicate connection information to users, who then create
their own connections, either by entering connection information in the Connection Wizard or
by importing a connection key file that you give them.
