Adobe Systems today released Adobe Contribute 4 software, a new version of the web publishing solution designed for business, education and government workers to easily and safely contribute content to the Web without having to learn HTML.
Version 4 offers new blog publishing capabilities, unified web publishing, enhanced Microsoft Office integration for Windows users, and Adobe Flash video support.
The new unified web publishing feature enables users to post and publish content to multiple Web sites and blogs using its visually intuitive authoring tools (and can work offline).
Contribute 4 works seamlessly with Macromedia Dreamweaver from Adobe, site administrators give authoring permission and can maintain Web site integrity, and look-and-feel even when multiple authors update content across the site. It is available for Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later for $150. Upgrades from earlier versions are $80.
Contribute supports the most popular blog servers — Blogger, Typepad, and Wordpress as well as offers the the option of connecting to in-house blog servers, straight out of the box. Contribute 4 also improves rich media support, enabling users to drag and drop images, movies, and now Adobe Flash video files into their Web pages or blog entries. In addition, users can publish content from a browser to their Web site and blog. Contribute maintains the original formatting and automatically posts the source for the content as well as a link.
Why Contribute 4
Give users a single tool for web publishing
Keep website content fresh and blog entries current with a single application. True WYSIWYG authoring capabilities make it easy to publish new or update existing content in three simple steps: Just browse to the website or blog, make the changes, and click Publish.
Maintain website integrity
Thanks to integration with Dreamweaver, web designers and developers can create page templates with editable regions, helping to ensure that website look and feel is not compromised — even when multiple authors update content across the site.
Control website authoring permissions and content approval workflows
Use fine-grained permissions to define who can edit a website or update specific content on a page within a site. Or limit certain users to “edit only, no publish” to help ensure content adheres to defined approval workflows.
Help users get started with blogging
Let users take advantage of the latest in online communication using the same familiar environment they use to update website content. Add tags to blog entries without messy HTML coding, and use any tag repository to help other users find the blog content.
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